A tendency toward the increasing availability of openly released AI models and the documented effects of that openness on who can access and build on such models. A macro trend in the model ecosystem, not an interaction-level phenomenon.
TREND. Tracked at ecosystem level via indicators such as the share of widely used models that are openly released and the breadth of downstream access (e.g. derivative or deployment counts). The construct is the change in these openness/access indicators over time.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Ecosystem time series: proportion of leading models released under open terms and downstream-access breadth (derivative/deployment counts) sampled across periods; trend could be reported as indexed change with source provenance.
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