Great panel with @martin.social & @guypo.com at State of Open last week, we talked about open-source vs. open-weights - shoutout to @samj.net, making AI accessible and efficient and how to integrate AI for software development. Thanks @openuk.bsky.social for organising this event.

Open Source 2.0 discussion is 2-3pm today at #FOSDEM in AW1.121, opposite H upstairs

FOSS folks at #FOSDEM (or able to reach those who are), please join us 2-3pm tomorrow for an informal discussion on: #OpenSource 2.0: Imagining the Future in a Data-Driven #AI Era https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6813-open-source-2-0-imagining-the-future-in-a-data-driven-ai-era/

Speaker @samj.net of Open Source Alliance will be in our SOOCon25 AI openness track! 🎤Hear about The meaning of Openness and AI and Open Source 2.0: Evolving Global Governance in an AI-Driven World💡 https://buff.ly/3HjeQxq #opensource #opensourceai #ai #stateofopencon #soocon25 #opensourcelondon

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” — Noam Chomsky on the Open Source Initiative (OSI), probably.

A Forgotten Manifesto: Mozilla Betrays Its Own Values on Open Source AI #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OpenSourceAI #OSAID #Mozilla https://samjohnston.org/2024/12/18/a-forgotten-manifesto-mozilla-betrays-its-own-values-on-open-source-ai/

The OSI's Open Source AI Definition is "akin to the plight of modern farmers forced to rely on sterile genetically modified (GM) seeds, preventing the reuse and innovation that drive sustainable progress." - @samj.net I.e., data is source for AI samjohnston.org/2024/12/14/o...

Plenty of excuses: Meta’s LLaMA, EU’s AI Act, medical models, federated learning, copyright, even kiddy porn. I’ve covered them all (I think) at https://samjohnston.org

This wasn’t a post I wanted to write, but Friday nights are where bad news goes to die, so here we are… #OpenSource Under Siege: The Internal Threat We Didn’t See Coming samjohnston.org/2024/12/14/o...

Open Source Under Siege: The Internal Threat We Didn’t See Coming https://samjohnston.org/2024/12/14/open-source-under-siege-the-internal-threat-we-didnt-see-coming/

Meta’s Llama models are NOT Open Source but Open Weight according to Meta https://samjohnston.org/2024/12/13/metas-llama-models-are-not-open-source-but-open-weight-according-to-meta/# #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OpenAI #Meta #LLaMA

The Case Against OSI’s Open Source AI Definition #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OpenAI #OSAID https://thenewstack.io/the-case-against-osis-open-source-ai-definition/

The OSI has killed its Open Source community with censorship #OpenSource #Community #Censorship #Freedom #FreedomOfSpeech https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/28/the-osi-has-killed-its-open-source-community-with-censorship/

"We would like to add our voices, particularly in strong support of the requirement for data, which we consider to be the ‘source’ of AI systems." https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/27/defining-mandatory-components-for-ai-systems-seeking-digital-public-good-dpg-recognition/

Completeness vs Openness: Data Dependencies and Open Source AI https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/24/openness-vs-completeness-data-dependencies-and-open-source-ai/ #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #Open #AI #OpenAI #OpenData

Word of the Day: “Broligarchs” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/inside-the-rise-of-us-oligarchs/104622344

I hope y’all know what’s in #Project2025 because it’s what’s for dinner 😞 “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-team-turns-project-2025-disavowing-effort-campaign-rcna180689

Open Source AI: Won’t somebody please think of the children? #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #Ethics #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/21/open-source-ai-wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-children/

FOSS Force’s Caroline Hall has just taken a torch to the Open Source AI Definition 🔥 Good. Will Partnership With Eclipse Help OSI Come to Its Senses on Open Source AI? https://fossforce.com/2024/11/will-partnership-with-eclipse-help-osi-come-to-its-senses-on-open-source-ai/

Federated Learning and Open Source AI: https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/17/federated-learning-and-open-source-ai/? #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OSAID #FederatedLearning

Medical applications of Open Source AI https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/17/medical-applications-of-open-source-ai/? #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OSAID #medicine

And sure, if you go by raw numbers of users using Bluesky Social PBC-owned PDSes instead, it's like 99.999% of them, but that reflects the fact that most people don't give a fuck about the tech details and want it to Just Work. If someone else started a PDS that Just Worked I'm sure it'd get takers.

"bluesky is not yet decentralized" it is! anyone can move their data to their own server. it requires some technical expertise right now, but we'll make this process easier. and we expect other companies to offer this as a service too — so it won't require technical expertise in the future

These appointments prove that insisting people achieve and be promoted based on “merit” was never really their real concern.

In France, criminals go to the other big house: https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/french-prosecutors-call-to-make-le-pen-ineligible-in-2027-election/689420

Don’t be the same dusty ass you were on Twitter. Post your hobbies, your passions, talk with each other, follow people back. There is no reason for someone with like 78k followers to be following a handful of people. Don’t act like you’re an elitist dipshit here. We are nice here, to each other.

AGI is here. Maybe. New MIT Research Proves AGI Was Achieved https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/artificial-general-intelligence-advancements/

I think it can be done, but should not come in the form of a second, conflicting definition like #OSAID. We could update the existing Open Source Definition in the “completeness” dimension — it’s already strong on the “openness” axis — by adding a sentence explicitly extending coverage to data.

Maybe all this is a necessary step on the path to a better future? “There will be moments of violence and expressions of hatred and an ugly echo of intolerance, but these are the clinging vestiges of a decayed past, not the harbingers of the better, cleaner future.” www.vulture.com/article/dick...

“The future of AI is open” — IBM We agree at Kwaai where we’re developing the Personal Artificial Intelligence Operating System (pAI-OS): Making AI personal with an open source operating system integrating best-of-breed software for building intelligent assistants & agents. #OpenSource #AI

/me waves

“The future of AI is open” — IBM We agree at Kwaai where we’re developing the Personal Artificial Intelligence Operating System (pAI-OS): Making AI personal with an open source operating system integrating best-of-breed software for building intelligent assistants & agents. #OpenSource #AI

Made the mistake of sitting down at the #AI summit at #WebSummit to learn about this new thing (aka ANPR from the late 90s) some startup is using to make folks pay for parking 🥱

@fadouce.bsky.social: I’m trying to get to the bottom of how a .gouv.fr ended up on this list: opensource.org/ai/endorseme...

Folks from said states avert your eyes:

I would pay serious money for that paint job (but you’d have to pay me to be seen in a CT)

You’ll have no interest in human creativity being tainted by unknown others’ IP rights and a “chain of custody” back to the content oligarchs via the same opaque “Open Source” AI models blessed by said techbro/s either, so definitely don’t connect that to this: news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-la...

If you don’t like techbros behaving badly while pretending to smash the patriarchy on behalf of their rainbow capitalism masters then definitely do not read this: samjohnston.org/2024/11/09/s... #opensource #ai #osaid

Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams

Open Letter to Georgia Tech on Open Source AI in Education & Research https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/11/open-letter-to-georgia-tech-on-open-source-ai-in-education-research #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OSAID #GeorgiaTech

So, you want to write about the OSI’s Open Source AI Definition (OSAID)… https://samjohnston.org/2024/11/09/so-you-want-to-write-about-the-open-source-ai-definition/ #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OSAID

What do you lot think of OpenVibe, the app (not open source brain interface?!) that should cross-post this to BlueSky (@samj.net), Mastodon (@[email protected]), Nostr ([email protected]), and Threads (@sam.j.johnston)?

🚨 Please take a moment to SIGN ✒️ and SHARE 📢 the #OpenSourceDeclaration to protect #OpenSource from damaging forks that undermine the four essential freedoms of free software on which modern society is based: to Use, Study, Modify, and Share it: opensourcedeclaration.org

We, the undersigned members of the Open Source community, assert that Open Source is defined solely by the Open Source Definition (OSD) v1.9. Any amendments or new definitions shall only be recognized if declared by clear community consensus through a transparent process to be determined. osd.fyi

OSI on the co-design process that [still-]birthed the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) samjohnston.org/2024/10/26/o... #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

The Narrows Bridge: From Open Source to AI redmonk.com/sogrady/2024... #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Debian General Resolution (GR) drafted opposing OSI's Open Source AI Definition (#OSAID) samjohnston.org/2024/10/22/d... #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence

Is the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) compatible with the Open Source Definition (OSD)? samjohnston.org/2024/10/21/i... #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OSAID

This aged like milk:

Toronto from the ferry yesterday