What could truly open AI look like?

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

The artificial intelligence wars are in full swing with companies like Microsoft and Google

battling it out.

Now Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, is entering the fray.

Last week, the company announced a new startup focused on developing what it calls trustworthy

and independent AI built on open source software that's freely accessible to the public.

As with its other products, which emphasize transparency and privacy, Mozilla aims to

distinguish itself in a crowded AI field as a brand committed to the public interest.

Moudam is Senior Vice President of Innovation Ecosystems at Mozilla.

When we think about what trustworthy AI means, we want to shift the arc away from purely

using this technology to profit organizations and towards more responsible and ethical

best practices like transparency, like accountability coming into the fabric of the tech.

So when we think about chat GBT or great systems like this, one of the terms we hear often

coming out of society now is a term hallucination when it comes to these large language models.

When it's applied to this space, really we're saying that some of these tools make things

up.

If you're an individual using chat GBT for fun, this can be humorous to some people might

be annoying.

But on the other hand, as a journalist who might be using generative AI aids to research

or write a story, or if a doctor were using generative AI-powered decision-making tools,

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