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What I would like to see is some sort of 'nutritional label' for a given AI application (probably needs to be some NGO funded by donations/bequests):
Per request:
- energy consumption
- how much of that energy consumption is renewable
- water consumption
- what do the locals get out of 'hosting' data centers, etc., if anything?
- human curation person hours
- what human curators were paid for their work and some disclosure of working conditions
- data sources used for training models
- what if any royalties paid out for data
etc.
Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI etc would ideally participate in audits so that the rating estimates would have some meaning and allow them to label their application accordingly. I believe there are academic studies that attempt to assess this sort of thing, but it needs to be more comprehensive and available to public at large.
Food nutrition labels aren't perfect but they can be very helpful.
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