Favorite The OSI contributed, along with other members of civil society and academia, to a letter drafted by Mozilla and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) asking the White House and Congress to exercise great caution when considering whether and how to regulate the publication of open models. The
Favorite The current draft is up for review and comment. Please spread the word with your peers as we are entering the last 2 months of drafting: this is the time to raise concerns and shape the final text of the Open Source AI Definition. Where to find the description
Favorite The polls just closed, the results are in. Congratulations to the returning directors Thierry Carrez and Josh Berkus, and the newly elected director Chris Aniszczyk. Thierry Carrez has been confirmed and joins as a director elected by the Affiliate organizations. Chris Aniszczyk and Josh Berkus collected the votes of
Favorite Comments on draft 0.0.6 from the forum Point raised by participant that training data has been listed both as optional and a precondition. This might cause confusion as it is unclear whether we should have the right to access training data or know what training data was used for
Favorite Big week, marked by the release of draft 0.0.6! The document is available for live comments and more general comments on the forum. Changes in the section “What is open source AI” added, “Precondition to exercise these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications
Favorite I was recently invited to join hosts Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo on The Changelog podcast. The Changelog features deep technical reviews and conversations about the most recent news in the world of software, and this was the first time anyone from the OSI has appeared on the show.
Favorite A weekly summary of interesting threads on the forum. The results from the working groups are in The groups that analyzed OpenCV and Bloom have completed their work and the results of the votes have been published. We now have a full overview of the result of the four
Favorite The recent US Executive Order on AI directs action for numerous federal agencies. This includes directing the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA*) to discuss benefits, risks and policy choices associated with dual-use foundation models, which are powerful models that can be fine-tuned and used for multiple purposes, with
Favorite There is a debate within the AI community around the risks of widely releasing foundation models with their weights and the societal impact of that decision. Some are arguing that the wide availability of Llama2 or Stable Diffusion XL are a net negative for society. A position paper released
Favorite Two years ago, we started migrating our website from Drupal to WordPress. We knew it wasn’t going to be a quick weekend project, but more of a journey. Today, we celebrate the final leg of this voyage – merging our blog back into the main site, creating a unified