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Shannon Hong
Posts by Shannon Hong
An Invitation for Creators, Activists, and Stewards of the Open Movement
by Shannon Hong, Creative Commons Licenses & Tools, PolicyDear Open Movement Creators, Activists, and Stewards, A key question facing Creative Commons as an organization, and the open movement in general, is how we will respond to the challenge of shaping artificial intelligence (AI) towards the public interest, growing and sustaining a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture. So much of generative AI…
What does the CC Community Think about Regulating Generative AI?
by Shannon Hong, Timid Robot Zehta, Nate Angell, Kat Walsh PolicyIn the past year, Creative Commons, alongside other members of the Movement for a Better Internet, hosted workshops and sessions at community conferences like MozFest, RightsCon, and Wikimania, to hear from attendees regarding their views on artificial intelligence (AI). In these sessions, community members raised concerns about how AI is utilizing CC-licensed content, and discussions…
Dispatches from Wikimania: Values for Shaping AI Towards a Better Internet
by Shannon Hong, Creative Commons Better Internet, PolicyIsolated Araneiform Topography, from UAHiRISE Collection on Flickr. Public Domain Mark. AI is deeply connected to networked digital technologies — from the bazillions of works harvested from the internet to train AI to all the ways AI is shaping our online experience, from generative content to recommendation algorithms and simultaneous translation. Creative Commons engaged participants…