AI Ethics Researchers Expose Big Tech's Crushing of Small Language AI Startups
AI ethics researchers Timnit Gebru and Abeba Birhane document how Big Tech model announcements trigger investor withdrawals from small language AI organizations. Meta's No Language Left Behind announcement caused investors to pressure African language NLP startups to shut down, while OpenAI representatives allegedly threaten smaller organizations with obsolescence while offering minimal compensation for their data.
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