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		pabs3 on April 26, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Petition to the Open Source Initiative: Publish th... It is definitely doable to get openly licensed data, you just have to do it via voluntary participation of crowdsourced data acquisition programs. For example the RNNoise model was retrained from such crowdsourced data.

tedivm on April 26, 2025 [–]

IBM did it with their Granite models.

pabs3 on April 26, 2025 | [–]

The data used for training Granite doesn't sound like it would be under FOSS licenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Granite

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