Firstly, because "safety" equates to "censorship".
The internet wasn't designed as "safe", despite all of the attempts to create age verification and content monitoring and policing laws. It's a monumental achievement and is all the better for being an open technology.
Secondly, because if open research isn't happening at scale, the closed platforms win AI. Tools and techniques need to be open to serve as a counterweight to the behemoths. It will result in more innovation and more distribution of power.
If Microsoft has "won" the internet in the 90s, imagine where we'd be today. Google would have been effectively smothered, we'd all be using MSN, and most of the development dollars and innovation capital would have acreted to Microsoft's sphere of influence.
The internet wasn't designed as "safe", despite all of the attempts to create age verification and content monitoring and policing laws. It's a monumental achievement and is all the better for being an open technology.
Secondly, because if open research isn't happening at scale, the closed platforms win AI. Tools and techniques need to be open to serve as a counterweight to the behemoths. It will result in more innovation and more distribution of power.
If Microsoft has "won" the internet in the 90s, imagine where we'd be today. Google would have been effectively smothered, we'd all be using MSN, and most of the development dollars and innovation capital would have acreted to Microsoft's sphere of influence.