Responsible AI integration

The Open Data Editor (ODE) has an AI component to help users better understand their data. The AI component is powered by local models. No data is sent to the cloud, and all operations take place on the user’s computer.

The introduction of these AI-assisted data quality features significantly expands the tool’s capabilities, enabling faster identification of anomalies, smarter suggestions for corrections, and improved handling of large, dense datasets while retaining a privacy-preserving, local-first design.

This deepens Open Knowledge Foundation’s commitment to developing simple, sustainable and long-lasting technologies that solve people’s real problems, in line with The Tech We Want initiative.

In order to use the AI feature, ODE will guide users to download the model onto their machine first.

Note

As the model is local and all computing will be happening in the user’s computer, performance will be affected by the machine’s hardware, and the response quality sometimes will be minor than typical cloud LLMs like ChatGPT, Deepseek or Claude.

ODE is trying to balance user experience for non-technical audiences and performance and privacy.