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“Open Artificial Intelligence” misses the point - Seirdy
The Open-Source Initiative (OSI) is planning to form a definition of “Open Artificial Intelligence” (not to be confused with OpenAI, a company selling
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The Open-Source Initiative ( OSI ) is planning to form a definition of “Open Artificial Intelligence” (not to be confused with OpenAI, a company selling proprietary autocomplete software whose technical details only grow less open with each iteration). Unfortunately, odds of the definition requiring the release of training data are slim: the OSI’s executive director isn’t keen on the idea himself. I see libre/open-source software as a means to reduce dependence on a vendor, and mitigate the risk of user domestication . As long as training data is out of the community’s reach, it’s impossible for the vendor to be replaced. Yes, it’s possible to customize or re-train the model, but the vendor remains in control of its future development. Recent decades have tested the effectiveness of liberating source code as a defense against user domestication, as I explain in another blog post . But to re-define Open Source to allow labelling a model that is impossible to competitively fork would be to miss the whole value of FOSS in my eyes: to allow users to own not just their tools, but those tools’ futures.