The OSI lacks competence to define Open Source AI
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has stepped up the censorship of fellow advocates for the four essential freedoms (to use, study, modify, and share software), moderating, silencing, and threatening permanent community bans to proponents of an Open Source AI definition (OSAID) that fully protects said freedoms by requiring users have access to the “source” of AI models: training datasets.
In response to yesterday’s post disclosing their proposal’s critical security issues (Turning Open Source AI Insecurity up to 11 with OSI’s RC1), their community manager stepped up the authoritarianism, demanding contributors respect the Community Guidelines or appropriate actions will be taken. This is never a good sign in a purportedly open (i.e., open-washed) process being run by a non-profit organisation with “open” in its name, but as you’ll see, the reality is even more troublesome.
It seems a now successfully silenced community is the best community though, especially when you’re trying to ram through a redefinition of a quarter century of Open Source that everybody else hates, including the original author of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and founder of the OSI, Bruce Perens:
