Fairly Trained is a non-profit that certifies AI companies for fairer training data sourcing.
Guilded AI | Better data starts with aligned incentives
Guilded AI aligns the incentives of AI developers and human experts who produce training data and evaluations.
Thaura / Your Ethical AI Companion
No ads, no investors, no training on your data. Just an AI that works for you.
General 2 — Fairly Trained
These are the companies and models that we’ve certified so far. We encourage you to choose them when considering generative AI providers.
FAIRdata.ai — FAIR Data Assessment
Assess your research data's FAIRness. Automated pipeline using F-UJI + Claude AI. Free to use.
Workers powering the AI industry face terrible conditions, but they shouldn’t have to – interview
Mark Graham, founder of the Fairwork initiative, notes that most of the labour in the AI supply chain is data work primarily done in low-income countries in poor conditions.
Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong | Fortune
What's the price of training an AI to take your job someday (soon)? Mercor has contract gig listings as high as $150 per hour.
Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use
I made some notes on the nature of the training of LLMs, and about whether we as a society should consider the material used to train them as a fair use of that material.
Firms like Meta and A16z admit having to pay billions for training data would ruin their generative-AI plans as they fight new copyright rules
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Andreessen Horowitz are trying to keep AI developers from having to pay for copyrighted material used in AI training.
Briefing: X handed fact-checking to the crowd. Then it became the crowd.
Plus: A new image analysis tool and a list of companies selling AI training data.
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
Confer — Private AI. Speak freely.
A private AI assistant where you can learn about the world — without data brokers and future training runs learning about you instead.
Practical Data Ethics
Free, online course from fast.ai and USF Data Institute covering disinformation, bias & fairness, ethical foundations, practical tools, privacy & surveillance, the silicon valley ecosystem, and algorithmic colonialism
AI Ethics Class
Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation establish a shared model with Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Who Pays for the Commons?
Three and a half years after the emergence of generative AI as a new technology paradigm, there is broad agreement that AI companies have extracted enorm...
