Molly White pointing out that free and open access is still a necessity even in a generative AI world. And for everyone to be successful AI companies need to figure out a structure that will allow them to give back:
The future of free and open access isn’t about saying “wait, not like that” — it’s about saying “yes, like that, but under fair terms”. With fair compensation for infrastructure costs. With attribution and avenues by which new people can discover and give back to the underlying commons. With deep respect for the communities that make the commons — and the tools that build off them — possible. Only then can we truly build that world where every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
My favorite part though was this nice jab:
Many AI “visionaries” seem perfectly content to promise that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner, but claim that attribution is somehow a permanently unsolvable problem.