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OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition
[LWN subscriber-only content] The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been working on defining Open Source AI—that is what constitutes an AI system that can be used, studied, modified, and shared for any purpose—for almost two years. Its board will be voting on the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) on Sunday, October 27, with the 1.0 version slated to be published on October 28.
A machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Giacomo Tesio posted a list of issues he considered unaddressed in the RC2 version of the OSAID, including a claim that there is inherent insecurity due to the ability to plant undetectable backdoors in machine-learning models. He added that OSI had synthesized input from " AI builders, users, and deployers, content creators, unions, ethicists, lawyers, software developers from all over the world" to arrive at the definition.
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