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Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
Meta’s Llama contends with the new Open Source Initiative definition of truly “open” AI.
OSI has long set the industry standard for what constitutes open-source software, but AI systems include elements that aren’t covered by conventional licenses, like model training data. Llama is publicly available for download and use, but it has restrictions on commercial use (for applications with over 700 million users) and does not provide access to training data, causing it to fall short of OSI’s standards for unrestricted freedom to use, modify, and share. He recalls Meta telling him about its intensive investment in Llama, asking him “who do you think is going to be able to do the same thing?” Maffulli saw a familiar pattern: a tech giant using cost and complexity to justify keeping its technology locked away.
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