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There already are tons of open source models. Some of them good. Check out Huggingface. BLOOM comes to mind as a decent starting point.

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They are good but not ChatGPT/GPT-4 good which is the standard of good that really blew up lately. Meanwhile Mozilla is investing in… AI ethicists? The most useless segment of the AI landscape? (Information is scarce so maybe this interpretation is wrong.) Well, at least it does align with their other activism.

Somebody has to do it - do we really trust big corporations to hire their own AI ethicists to police themselves?

A part of me hopes they are able to use money Google gives them for some of this - although that may be reserved for just Firefox.

and with the recent firing of all the ai ethics teams from Google and Microsoft...

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