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Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”
This week, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) made their new Open Source Artificial Intelligence Definition (OSAID) official with its 1.0 release. With this announcement, we have reached the moment that software freedom advocates have feared for decades: the definition of “open source” — with which OSI was entrusted — now differs in significant ways from the views of most software freedom advocates.
FOSS activists should be engaging with the larger discussions with impacted communities of content creators about what “open source” means to them, and how they feel about incorporation of their data in the training sets into these third-party systems. Meanwhile, I have spent literally months of time over the last 30 years trying to make sure the coalition of software freedom & rights activists remained in basic congruence (at least publicly) with those (like OSI) who are oriented towards a more for-profit and corporate open source approach. Nevertheless, a generally useful technical system that is built by collapsing data (in essence, via highly lossy compression) into a table of floating point numbers is philosophically much more complicated than binary software and its Corresponding Source.
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