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Squaring the Circle of Open Source AI without Data
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…
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Proprietary Data Considered Harmful to Open Source AI
OSI’s Definition of Open Source AI Raises Critical Legal Concerns for Developers and Businesses, says Luca Antiga, AI developer of PyTorch fame and fellow lobbyist for Big Freedom. He literally wrote the book on the topic, so while every voice is equal in this ongoing asinine debate, some are more equal than others. When people…
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Malicious compliance with the release candidate Open Source AI definition
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…
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Open Source to require documentation for the first time for AI?
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…
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Is testing data required to use AI? It depends.
Explore the debate on Open Source AI and the necessity of making testing data available for transparency, compliance, and performance validation.
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The Missing Third Leg: Training Data Excluded from Open Source AI Definition by [Co-]Design
I’ve downloaded and transcribed all 18 of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)‘s townhalls on the subject of their Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) sideshow so you don’t have to. I used one of OpenAI’s Whisper models (large-v2) whose “performance is close to that of professional human transcribers” (per the paper released with it). “Whisper’s code…
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The Open Source(ish) AI Definition (OSAID)
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) are seeking endorsements of their upcoming Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), which has worked its way through a series of drafts since the start of the year to land on v0.0.9. Any differences between this and RC 1 are likely to be minimal as the form notes they “will double-check…