用能力理论重新定义开放搜索,避免被大公司收编。
Open, to What End? A Capability-Theoretic Perspective on Open Search
- 以使用者能获得什么能力为核心,而非仅看源代码是否公开。
- 指出当前开放运动易被大企业利用,导致权力固化。
- 适合关注数字公平、平台治理的研究者与政策制定者。
少数大型企业对搜索平台的控制权引发广泛担忧,尤其在地缘政治紧张和专制势力操纵舆论的背景下愈发突出。为此,推动开放搜索的呼声日益高涨,呼应过去开源与开放AI模型的努力。然而,这些开放运动在标准制定上长期存在争议,难以真正挑战权力结构,反而被巨头收编或弱化。本文认为,开放搜索同样会遭遇类似冲突,必须提前揭示并应对这些张力。关键在于,不应仅从技术透明度定义‘开放’,而应以能力理论为视角,聚焦系统开放后赋予使用者的实际能力。唯有如此,才能真正保障开放的初衷。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The hegemony of control over our search platforms by a few large corporations raises justifiable concerns, particularly in light of emerging geopolitical tensions and growing instances of ideological imposition by authoritarian actors to manipulate public opinion. Recent movement for promote open search has emerged in response. This follows from past and ongoing push for openness to challenge corporate oligopolies (e.g., open source and open AI models) which have seen significant ongoing negotiations and renegotiations to establish standards around what constitutes being open. These tensions have hindered these movements from effectively challenging power, in turn allowing powerful corporations to neutralize or co-opt these movements to further entrench their dominance. We argue that the push for open search will inevitably encounter similar conflicts, and should foreground these tensions to safefguard against similar challenges as these adjacent movements. In particular, we argue that the concept of open should be understood not with respect to what is being made open but through a capability-theoretic lens, in terms of the capabilities it affords to the actors the system is being opened to.
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