Mozilla.ai is a new startup and community funded with 30M from Mozilla that aims to build trustworthy and open-source AI ecosystem

My mind immediately went to a horizon zero dawn like dystopia where the Mozilla AI is the only thing left protecting humans from various malevolent AIs bent on consuming the human race

Incredibly welcomed. We need more ethical, non-profit AI researchers in the sea of corporate for-profit AI companies.

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. I really do. I am going to watch this with a critical eye, however.

I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm so goddamn tired of "open source" turning into subscription models restricting use cases because the company wants to appease conservative investors.

I would really like Mozilla to make the best browser in the world please.

Wishing they would say something more, the site has been like that for some time.

As much as I love Mozilla, I know they're going to censor it (sorry, the word is "alignment" now) the hell out of it to fit their perceived values. Luckily if it's open source then people will be able to train uncensored models

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All I want to know is if they are going to pillage people's private data and steal their creative IP or not.

Ethical AI starts and ends with open, transparent, legitimate and ethically sourced training data sets.

trustworthy how?

Cautiously optimistic about this one.

Couldn't give a fuck, there's already far too much bad blood regarding any form of AI for me.

It's been shoved in my face, phone and computer for some time now. The best AI is one that doesn't exist. AGI can suck my left nut too, don't fuckin care.

Give me livable wages or give me death, I care not for anything else at this point.

Edit: I care far more about this for privacy reasons than the benefits provided via the tech.

The fact these models reached "production ready" status so quickly is beyond concerning, I suspect the companies are hoping to harvest as much usable data as possible before being regulated into (best case) oblivion. It really no longer seems that I can learn my way out of this, as I've been doing since the beginning, as the technology is advancing too quickly for users, let alone regulators to keep it in check.

Something that I'll definitely keep an eye on. Thanks for sharing!

In which ways does this differ from stability ai, which made stable diffusion and also have a LLM afaik?

This is a much better use of money then developing Servo! Go mozzila!

Isn't AI impossible to meaningfully open source because of how learning models work?

Please just put the 30 million into improving the browser. Not all this dumb stuff

Coming from a company the preaches about privacy and rates privacy respecting businesses, while collecting telemetry and accepting 500M/ year to from google to promote their search engine... I'll take this as the puff up piece that is is.