To protect the integrity of knowledge production, the training procedures of foundation models such as GPT-4 need to be made accessible to regulators and researchers. Foundation models must become open and public, and those are not the same thing.
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The authors thank J. Zuidema and F. McKelvey for their feedback and suggestions, which have improved this commentary. The authors were supported by the Spinoza program of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Ferrari, F., van Dijck, J. & van den Bosch, A. Foundation models and the privatization of public knowledge. Nat Mach Intell 5, 818–820 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-023-00695-5
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