Open Source Initiative

And this is also the reason why this has triggered a bit of criticism by some stakeholders.

And broadly, all these open weights initiatives are not aligned with what, for example, the Open Source Initiative has pushed for.

The Open Source Initiative is a nonprofit organization which was behind all the push for Indeed, developing the open source standard back in the 90s.

And on their view, indeed, real openness requires much more than open weights.

I don't personally have a position on whether something is necessary at this stage.

This is pretty much what happened with open source softwares in the 90s and what could happen with AI systems too, albeit the big difference with open source softwares and how the initiatives worked back then.

is that AI requires way more investments upfront and way more know-how and technical skills than just contributing to say Linux or another open source software.

So in that sense, having like a broad community contributing to it will not necessarily lead to the same developments that the open source initiatives led to with regard to softwares.

We really are.

To understand the misuse, we have to look at the open source initiative, the OSI.

Okay.

They recently released their formal, strict definition of what constitutes an open source AI system.

So that's why it sounds like I have two jobs.

I also am on the board of the Open Source Initiative.

I've been there for about a year.

And, you know, always something else to do.

And Bradley Kuhn was also previously for many years, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, the one that Richard Stallman founded.

Now, Bradley Kuhn says that multiple open source organizations are corrupt, specifically calling out the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, and the Linux Foundation.

What's amazing here is how similar...

I mean, that could be a Lunduk Journal headline right there.

and threatened him with doxing.

Well, been there, man, been there.

He continues, I'm mainly thinking about the open source initiative and Linux Foundation there, but they have a plurality of attention by folks outside of the free and open source software world about what open source is.

And that's a terrible problem because it makes free and open source software look primarily look like primarily an industrial rather than community endeavor.