The biggest issue with generative AI, at least to me, is the fact that it's trained using human-made works where the original authors didn't consent to or even know that their work is being used to train the AI. Are there any initiatives to address this issue? I'm thinking something like an open source AI model and training data store that only has works that are public domain and highly permissive no-attribution licenses, as well as original works submitted by the open source community and explicitly licensed to allow AI training.

I guess the hard part is moderating the database and ensuring all works are licensed properly and people are actually submitting their own works, but does anything like this exist?

They're trying to force the workers to strike so they can make their case to the government that the strike is disrupting an essential service and demand that they force the union to accept the terms. Literally the same thing happened a year ago: Postal workers make demands and are willing to negotiate, Canada Post completely refuses to negotiate and locks out the workers, workers strike, postal traffic in Canada grinds to a halt, millions of people and businesses are impacted, Canadian government cites the post office as an "essential service" and uses that to force the union and employer into arbitration even though the employer was the belligerent one and didn't even attempt to negotiate in the first place.

Also, news outlets scapegoated the union for all the delayed mail the last time they went on strike. "How could they do this to Canada? Can't they just accept working like slaves? It's an essential service after all, that means we get to exploit the people doing the job as much as we want and if they strike they're the problem!" No mention of what the union's actual demands were or how the post office itself acted.

Also also, Canada Post is NOT tax funded. It's a government institution that is set up like a normal corporation, but with the government as the shareholder. If that's not an ass backwards way of providing an essential service I don't know what is. Literally the worst of both worlds between private and public ownership.

They're trying to force the workers to strike so they can make their case to the government that the strike is disrupting an essential service and demand that they force the union to accept the terms. Literally the same thing happened a year ago: Postal workers make demands and are willing to negotiate, Canada Post completely refuses to negotiate and locks out the workers, workers strike, postal traffic in Canada grinds to a halt, millions of people and businesses are impacted, Canadian government cites the post office as an "essential service" and uses that to force the union and employer into arbitration even though the employer was the belligerent one and didn't even attempt to negotiate in the first place.

Also, news outlets scapegoated the union for all the delayed mail the last time they went on strike. "How could they do this to Canada? Can't they just accept working like slaves? It's an essential service after all, that means we get to exploit the people doing the job as much as we want and if they strike they're the problem!" No mention of what the union's actual demands were or how the post office itself acted.

Also also, Canada Post is NOT tax funded. It's a government institution that is set up like a normal corporation, but with the government as the shareholder. If that's not an ass backwards way of providing an essential service I don't know what is. Literally the worst of both worlds between private and public ownership.

They're trying to force the workers to strike so they can make their case to the government that the strike is disrupting an essential service and demand that they force the union to accept the terms. Literally the same thing happened a year ago: Postal workers make demands and are willing to negotiate, Canada Post completely refuses to negotiate and locks out the workers, workers strike, postal traffic in Canada grinds to a halt, millions of people and businesses are impacted, Canadian government cites the post office as an "essential service" and uses that to force the union and employer into arbitration even though the employer was the belligerent one and didn't even attempt to negotiate in the first place.

Also, news outlets scapegoated the union for all the delayed mail the last time they went on strike. "How could they do this to Canada? Can't they just accept working like slaves? It's an essential service after all, that means we get to exploit the people doing the job as much as we want and if they strike they're the problem!" No mention of what the union's actual demands were or how the post office itself acted.

Also also, Canada Post is NOT tax funded. It's a government institution that is set up like a normal corporation, but with the government as the shareholder. If that's not an ass backwards way of providing an essential service I don't know what is. Literally the worst of both worlds between private and public ownership.

They're trying to force the workers to strike so they can make their case to the government that the strike is disrupting an essential service and demand that they force the union to accept the terms. Literally the same thing happened a year ago: Postal workers make demands and are willing to negotiate, Canada Post completely refuses to negotiate and locks out the workers, workers strike, postal traffic in Canada grinds to a halt, millions of people and businesses are impacted, Canadian government cites the post office as an "essential service" and uses that to force the union and employer into arbitration even though the employer was the belligerent one and didn't even attempt to negotiate in the first place.

Also, news outlets scapegoated the union for all the delayed mail the last time they went on strike. "How could they do this to Canada? Can't they just accept working like slaves? It's an essential service after all, that means we get to exploit the people doing the job as much as we want and if they strike they're the problem!" No mention of what the union's actual demands were or how the post office itself acted.

Also also, Canada Post is NOT tax funded. It's a government institution that is set up like a normal corporation, but with the government as the shareholder. If that's not an ass backwards way of providing an essential service I don't know what is. Literally the worst of both worlds between private and public ownership.

I'm currently running Deepseek on Linux with Ollama (installed via curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh), and I specifically have to run it on my personal file server because it's the only computer in the house with enough memory for the larger models. Since it's running on the same system that has direct access to all my files, I'm more concerned about security than I would be if it was running on a dedicated server that just does AI. I'm really not knowledgeable on how AI actually works at the execution level, and I just wanted to ask whether Ollama is actually private and secure. I'm assuming it doesn't send my prompts anywhere since everything I've read lists that as the biggest advantage, but how exactly is the AI being executed on the system when you give it a command like ollama run deepseek-r1:32b and have it download files from where it's downloading from by default? Is it just downloading a regular executable and running that on the system, or is it more sandboxed than that? Is it possible for a malicious AI model to scan my files or do other things on the computer?