Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenAI's Whisper is another case study in Colonisation (via) Really interesting perspective on Whisper from the Papa Reo project - a group working to nurture and proliferate the Māori language.

The main questions we ask when we see papers like FLEURS and Whisper are: where did they get their indigenous data from, who gave them access to it, and who gave them the right to create a derived work from that data and then open source the derivation?