Introducing the Malawi Voice Data Commons
Three years after OpenAI’s ChatGPT went public in November 2022, it’s fair to say that commercial use cases for AI have failed to inspire– see Oral-B’s AI powered toothbrush or pay-to-grieve interactive avatars of deceased relatives. Sifting through hundreds of new AI tools and applications, it’s difficult to justify all the components that go into the training of these models and quell concerns they raise over environmental impact, data privacy, and copyright protection.
