The Open Source Initiative (OSI) continued their condescension towards the community today in a self-congratulatory post explaining How we passed the AI conundrums, like they were Alexander slashing through the Gordian knot (the article’s featured image is a modern equivalent, a Megaminx). Turtles All The Way Down The anonymous representative starts out by painting “some…
I asked gpt-4o to abuse the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) release candidate with malicious compliance on behalf of Meta, per Mark’s suggestion that this is a risk despite a strong denial by Stefano. We all agree that Llama is not Open Source AI, but differ on how far they are away. I’m running with the Llama example because it’s been used for…
Open Source, including as specified in the Open Source Definition (OSD), has never required documentation. It limits itself to the following 3 requirements: Documentation (whether inline or external to the code) may be “appreciated” and is often included, but never required. Even the LICENSE file itself is not required as a reference is adequate. A company can release insanely…