%0 Generic %1 widder2023business %A Widder, David Gray %A West, Sarah %A Whittaker, Meredith %D 2023 %K AI Big_Tech artificial_intelligence competition data open_source policy political_economy privacy %T Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI %U https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807 %X This paper examines ‘open’ AI in the context of recent attention to open and open source AI systems. We find that the terms ‘open’ and ‘open source’ are used in confusing and diverse ways, often constituting more aspiration or marketing than technical descriptor, and frequently blending concepts from both open source software and open science. This complicates an already complex landscape, in which there is currently no agreed on definition of ‘open’ in the context of AI, and as such the term is being applied to widely divergent offerings with little reference to a stable descriptor.

@electronic{widder2023business, abstract = {This paper examines ‘open’ AI in the context of recent attention to open and open source AI systems. We find that the terms ‘open’ and ‘open source’ are used in confusing and diverse ways, often constituting more aspiration or marketing than technical descriptor, and frequently blending concepts from both open source software and open science. This complicates an already complex landscape, in which there is currently no agreed on definition of ‘open’ in the context of AI, and as such the term is being applied to widely divergent offerings with little reference to a stable descriptor. }, added-at = {2023-08-17T19:37:08.000+0200}, author = {Widder, David Gray and West, Sarah and Whittaker, Meredith}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24bc715294a886a90574d4c2eb9854681/meneteqel}, interhash = {5415e8a991c1ed30232582b02464a59c}, intrahash = {4bc715294a886a90574d4c2eb9854681}, keywords = {AI Big_Tech artificial_intelligence competition data open_source policy political_economy privacy}, language = {en-US}, timestamp = {2023-08-17T19:37:08.000+0200}, title = {Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI}, url = {https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807}, year = 2023 }