The LLM revolution ran on a pretraining commons that humanity built for other reasons. Posttraining consumes tasks, not documents, and no such commons exists. If the open models community wants...
OER Commons
OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.
New to the Commons? | David Bollier
If you’re coming to the commons for the first time, it can be difficult to grok the idea because there are so many different ways to understand the commons. That’s because the commons is not so much a fixed, universal thing as a general concept describing durable, dynamic sets of social relationships for managing resources -- all sorts of resources: digital, urban, natural, indigenous, rural, cultural, scientific, to use some crude categories.
Brandon Stewart on Twitter / X
1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses. pic.twitter.com/5LdFvzbFaf— Brandon Stewart (@b_m_stewart) May 13, 2026
Digital commons
The digital commons refers to shared digital resources—such as software, knowledge, data, and cultural content—that are collectively produced and governed by a community and intended for public use.[1][2] These commons are distinguished by open access, participatory management, and licensing practices that preserve reuse and redistribution. Digital commons play a vital role in areas such as education, research, software development, and civic engagement.
Data Commons Can Save Open AI
Recent progress in open datasets shows promise for building fully open AI models without legal constraints.
Olmo Hybrid and future LLM architectures
The latest Olmo model and discussions at the frontier of open-source post training tools.
Uncommon victories: Lessons from Warringah and Indi
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
Is Digital Campaigning Dead?
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
Beyond Model Collapse: Scaling Up with Synthesized Data Requires...
Large Language Models (LLM) are increasingly trained on data generated by other LLM, either because generated text and images become part of the pre-training corpus, or because synthetized data is...
Deep Roots, Real Power: Candid Stories from the Field
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
The 2023 Voice Referendum Outcome: A Messaging Guide
The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.
Curated retrieval versus open web search in public AI information...
Public institutions increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to answer citizens' questions, often pairing a curated knowledge base with live web search, yet whether the sources behind these...
Generative AI and the Digital Commons — The Collective Intelligence Project
The aim of this paper is to build models of governance for generative foundation models that enable broadly shared benefit. Our initial hypothesis is that data is a high-value lever of governance. Many of these models are trained on publicly available data and use public infrastructure, but 1) may d
Digital Commons: Our Shared Right to Knowledge and Culture
As the volume of cultural and scientific works produced and available on the internet continues to expand, the question of freedom to consult and use this immense ‘digital commons’ is becoming a critical one, particularly as cutting off access could entail serious consequences for education, cultural exchange, and even the health of European citizens.
