Thus, "open AI" is best understood as "as free product development" for large, well-capitalized AI firms, done by tinkerers who will not be able to escape these giants' proprietary compute silos and opaque training corpuses, and whose work product is guaranteed to be compatible with the giants' own systems.

The instrumental story about the virtues of "open" often invoke #auditability: the fact that anyone can look at the source code makes it easier for bugs to be identified.

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@elr @neurovagrant @Seirdy because #Signal can't be #SelfHosted (unlike #XMPP and even #Zulip) I can't recommend or use it any professional capacity because I've to comply with #GDPR & #BDSG and that includes evidently having control over data and being able to comply with #auditability and #datadeletion requests in any organization.

Also #Signal does collect #PhoneNumbers and enforces #Cyberfacist embargos.

This individual vote verification tool for ongoing parliamentary elections in Estonia with its e-voting found its way into my digital democracy toolbox. We basically have individual verification for 30 minutes after submitting the ballot, but this tool lets you download the cryptogram, decrypt it and keep it for memory or later use. https://github.com/infoaed/kryptogramm #evoting #verification #auditability #rk2023