Training data access

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@stefano

• What about AI systems where data is not available, like those trained with federated learning or other privacy-preserving data-sharing techniques?

and more:

• What does “access to data” mean exactly and why is it necessary?

1. Isn’t the “privacy-preserving” techniques contradictory to open-source at the first place? You might think it is safe to “open-source” a federated learning based on private face data, but I guarantee you there are lots of methods to dump private training data from the model, although not byte-to-byte equivalent.

2. “access to data”. Anyone is able to download the original training/validation datasets anonymously, without charge, without registration. An example is the coco dataset: COCO - Common Objects in Context