Moderating Model Marketplaces: Platform Governance Puzzles for AI Intermediaries

arXiv:2311.12573v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The AI development community is increasingly making use of hosting intermediaries such as Hugging Face provide easy access to user-uploaded models and training data. These model marketplaces lower technical deployment barriers for hundreds of thousands of users, yet can be used in numerous potentially harmful and illegal ways. In this article, we explain ways in which AI systems, which can both `contain' content and be open-ended tools, present one of the trickiest platform governance challenges …

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