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Favorite Discussions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation will be heating up in 2024 with a provisional agreement for the EU AI Act having been reached in December 2023. The evolution of the EU AI Act is progressing toward a technology-neutral definition for AI to be applied to future AI systems.
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Shared by voicesofopensource February 9, 2024
Favorite The Open Source Initiative published today a new report that looks at the history of the business practice to delay releasing their code under freedom-respecting licenses. Since the early days of the Open Source movement, companies have experimented with finding a balance between granting their users the basic freedoms
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Favorite The current draft v. 0.0.3 of the Open Source AI Definition borrows wordings from the GNU Manifesto’s golden rule stating: If I like a program, I must be able to share it with others who like it. The GNU Manifesto The GNU Manifesto refers to “program” (not “AI system”),
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource November 28, 2023
Favorite [SPONSOR OPINION] By Heather Meeker, OSS Capital Machine learning has been around for a long time. But in late 2022, recent advancements in deep learning and large language models started to change the game and come into the public eye. And people started thinking, “We love Open Source software,
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource September 14, 2023
Favorite Traduit en français. It’s good news that the European Commission is now considering the value and needs of Open Source in its policy deliberations. What’s not as good is that it does so through the wrong lens. The Commission needs to extend its consultations, Expert Groups and other work
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Favorite This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a stakeholder workshop for the Digital Market Act (DMA) organized by the European Commission. For those who aren’t familiar with the DMA, it’s a new law that the European Parliament voted on recently and one of its goals is to force
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Favorite With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it is worth taking time to understand exactly why vendors requiring negotiations to use the patents they have embedded in “open” standards is antithetical to Open Source practice. The value and prosperity generated from Open Source arises from
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Favorite The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an interesting and important proposal for a European law that aims to drive the safety and integrity of software of all kinds by extending the “CE” self-attestation mark to software. And it may harm Open Source. The proposal includes a requirement for self-certification
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Favorite There’s more to Mastodon than just replacing Twitter. ActivityPub has the potential to end the reign of monetized surveillance with a switch to user-owned applications. The post The Fediverse unlocks a world of composable distributed apps first appeared on Voices of Open Source. Click Here to View Original Source
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Favorite By Alek Tarkowski The launch of open models like BLOOM and Stable Diffusion is a… The post On the emerging landscape of open AI first appeared on Voices of Open Source. Click Here to View Original Source (opensource.org)