OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI
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When tech billionaires and corporations steer AI development, the resultant AI reflects their interests rather than those of the general public or ordinary consumers. Only after the meeting with the B.C. government did OpenAI alert law enforcement. Had it not been for the Wall Street Journal’s reporting, the public would not have known about this at all.
Moreover, OpenAI for Countries is explicitly described by the company as an initiative “in co-ordination with the U.S. government.” ...
Switzerland has shown this to be possible. With funding from the federal government, a consortium of academic institutions – ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre – released the world’s most powerful and fully realized public AI model, Apertus, last September. Apertus leveraged renewable hydropower and existing Swiss scientific computing infrastructure. It also used no illegally pirated copyrighted material or poorly paid labour extracted from the Global South during training. The model’s performance stands at roughly a year or two behind the major corporate offerings, but that is more than adequate for the vast majority of applications. And it’s free for anyone to use and build on. ...
The significance of Apertus is more than technical. It demonstrates an alternative ownership structure for AI technology, one that allocates both decision-making authority and value to national public institutions rather than foreign corporations. ...
See the full story here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-openai-tumbler-ridge-chatgpt/
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