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In an open letter to the european union , GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and other tech companies request that impending rules for open-source artificial intelligence models be relaxed.
The letter urges policymakers to reconsider certain provisions of the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act, arguing that regulating upstream open-source initiatives as if they were commercial products or deployed AI systems would inhibit the development of open-source AI.
“This would be incompatible with open source development practices and run counter to the needs of individual developers and non-profit research organizations,” GitHub wrote in a blog post.
In particular, the group provided five recommendations to ensure that the AI Act works for open source models, including clearly defining ai components , clarifying that collaborative development on open source models is not subject to the bill's requirements, ensuring researchers' exceptions by allowing limited testing in real-world conditions, and establishing proportional requirements for“foundation models.”
Open letter calls EU regulators to support open source in the AI Act. Source: GitHub.
Open-source software is software that can be inspected, modified, and improved by anyone because its source code is accessible to the general public.
Open-source software helps train and deploy models in the field of artificial intelligence. In June, the European Parliament passed the Act with a large majority vote of 499 in favor, 28 against, and 93 abstentions.
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The Act will become law once the eu council, which represents the 27 member states, agrees on a unified version of the 2021 text.
The following phase involves individual negotiations with EU members to iron out the details. According to the open letter, the Act establishes a global standard for regulating AI to address its risks while simultaneously encouraging innovation.
The open letter states that“ai requires regulation that can mitigate risks by providing adequate standards and oversight and by establishing clear liability and recourse for harms.”
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