Melissa Heikkilä offers a number of ways Microsoft could use AI in its services, including as a Bing front-end, or as a summarizer or idea generator in Word, but there's always the risk of the '"regression to the meh,' where our personality is sucked out of our messages." That's fine for proprietary software, but what about open source applications? There's the BigCode Project's The Stack, "a 6.4TB dataset containing de-duplicated source code from permissively licensed GitHub repositories which can be used to train code generation AI models." And I think the difference between free and open AI applications and proprietary commercial applications like chatGPT Professional may be significant. What we see from Getty Images's lawsuit against Stable Diffusion is that commercial interests may (nay, will) collide. But how can we ensure free and open source applications are not caught in the crossfire?
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