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We are a European think tank that develops new approaches to an open internet that maximize societal benefits of shared data, knowledge and culture.

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Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

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⚪ A Public, Interoperable Social Media Space: the EU should create conditions enabling public institutions, non-profits, and citizen initiatives to invest in their own communication infrastructure: https://openfuture.eu/policies-for-the-digital-commons/interoperable-social-media/ 🧵2/2

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We are partnering with the Environmental Coalition on Standards (ECOS) to implement a project granted by the Green Screen Catalyst Fund. Our research will focus on the environmental costs of Europe’s data centers & the need to reduce energy consumption in the digital economy 🏢 More here: https://openfuture.eu/blog/toward-sustainable-and-non-exploitative-resource-management/

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Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

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Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

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The EU #AIAct, approved yesterday by the EU Council, falls short on concrete measures to address AI's environmental costs — write our Director of Research, Zuzanna Warso and KrisShrishak@eupolicy.social in their opinion piece for the Tech Policy Press 🔎 https://www.techpolicy.press/hope-the-ai-acts-approach-to-address-the-environmental-impact-of-ai/

openfuture, to opensource
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It's good to see the issue of #OpenSourceAI making waves in mainstream media 👀 Sarah Kessler mentions our work & quotes @tarkowski while describing "openwashing," in her regular feature for The New York Times 👉 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/business/what-is-openwashing-ai.html #ParadoxOfOpen #OpenSource

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🤖✍️ Article 53(1c) of the #AIAct requires providers of general-purpose AI models to put in place policies to comply with EU #copyright law and TDM opt-outs. Our new policy brief looks at practical strategies, technical standards, and services for implementing rightholders' opt-outs in a way that is effective, scalable, and meets the needs of both rightholders and AI model developers: https://openfuture.eu/publication/considerations-for-implementing-rightholder-opt-outs-by-ai-model-developers/

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The Think7 Italy Summit is happening this week, with the theme “The G7 and the World: Rebuilding Bridges”.

We have been invited to write a brief on “Democratic governance of AI systems and datasets”, which will be presented tomorrow by @tarkowski .

The brief has been a joint effort of three organizations: Open Future Foundation, Centro Politiche Europee and MicroSave Consulting (MSC), with contributions from Renata Avila, Lea Gimpel, and @savi.

https://think7.org/event/t7-italy-summit-the-g7-and-the-world-rebuilding-bridges/

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Open Future was a part of the conversations that led to the "Keys to a Healthier Digital Future" report by New America, Ford Foundation & Microsoft. Read about how technology can better serve society through and 👇https://www.newamerica.org/digital-impact-governance-initiative/briefs/keys-to-a-healthier-digital-future/

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During our April AI and the Commons call, Pierre-Carl Langlais, aka @Dorialexander, discussed Common Corpus, the largest public domain data set released for training LLMs and fine-tuning #AI as Commons. Read more here 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/common-corpus-building-ai-as-commons/ #DigitalCommons #OpenScience

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For all the talk of #DigitalSovereignty it would be unfortunate if the EU proved incapable of running a couple of servers to host a decentralized service and provide an alternative to its X and YouTube social media accounts," says Zuzanna Warso in our latest opinion 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/is-the-eu-serious-about-digital-public-space/

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Deliberative governance of critical #OpenSourceSoftware packages & their communities as #DigitalCommons could help overcome potential exploitation of the maintainer model, say @jankrewer & Nick Gates in their @NGICommons piece 👉https://commons.ngi.eu/2024/04/24/responding-to-xz-utils-can-a-digital-commons-approach-reinforce-oss-security/ #OpenSource #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

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The openness of AI models cannot be reduced to just their licensing — says @mweinberg in his recent post, drawing from experience with open hardware. In this note, we explain why we agree with Mike's position 👉 https://openfuture.eu/note/mike-weinberg-on-open-licensing/ #AI #OpenLicense

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What role do books play in training AI models, and how might digitized books be made widely accessible for the purposes of training #AI? Written in collaboration with @creativecommons and Proteus Strategies, our new report maps possible paths forward: https://openfuture.eu/publication/towards-a-books-data-commons-for-ai-training/ #DigitalCommons 🧵1/4

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The landscape of the arts and creative industries has changed because of #AI. The idea behind publishing this zine by our 2023 fellow, Nadia Nadesan, is to assist creatives in navigating these changes🗞️ Check it out 👉 https://openfuture.eu/publication/your-art-ai-zine/

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If we care about openness [of AI systems], we should also care about the openness of the data,“— says our Director of Research, Zuzanna Warso, in an MIT Technology Review piece on the challenges of defining what makes an #AI model #opensource 👉
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/25/1090111/tech-industry-open-source-ai-definition-problem/

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How to keep internet open? What should the EU’s role be in internet standard-setting? – read this recap of a conversation between Clément Perarnaud, Mallory Knodel, @olaf, and Geoff Huston 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/how-can-the-eus-approach-towards-internet-standards-be-improved/ #OpenInternet #InternetStandards #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

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With a growing number of private and public actors endorsing the concept of digital public infrastructure, @jankrewer clarifies our approach and the role of “public” in our Public Digital Infrastructure work 👉https://openfuture.eu/blog/signs-of-progress-digital-public-infrastructure-is-gaining-traction/ #DigitalPublicSpace #DigitalCommons

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Our assembly is nearing a consensus on the necessity of public alternatives to commercial AI solutions 🗣️ What should they be, though? Could public AI help cultivate the #DigitalCommons? Sign up to share your thoughts 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/alignment-assembly-on-ai-and-the-commons/

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Ethical principles? AI registries? In her new blog post, Nadia Nadesan debunks a few popular participation practices in the context of 🔎 https://openfuture.eu/blog/friction-in-ai-governance-performing-participation/

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“Digital sovereignty limited to the application layer is not sovereignty” – Zuzanna Warso writes about the partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI, fair competition, and 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/its-infrastructure-stupid/

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"There is an urgent need to reaffirm a view of the Internet as not just a Hobbesian cyberspace but a domain of cooperation and shared responsibility."

📷Read our latest blog post from
@jankrewer on Germany's international .

https://openfuture.eu/blog/raising-the-bar-for-germanys-tech-diplomacy/

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This Salon piece discusses growing concerns about #privacy violations by big tech and points to individual efforts and legislative measures as a means of resistance. It also references our work on #PublicDigitalInfrastructure, including Clément Perarnaud's recent report: https://www.salon.com/2024/02/20/anti-privacy-giants-want-you-to-surrender-hope-dont-give-up-without-a-fight/

openfuture, to ai
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"AI reduces people's motivation to share works openly." - What do you think? Join our Alignment Assembly on #AI & the Commons to vote on statements like this one and add your own. Register here 👉 https://openfuture.eu/blog/alignment-assembly-on-ai-and-the-commons/ #DigitalCommons #genAI

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