RALEIGH, N.C.,\u00a0Oct. 28, 2024 \u2014 ALL THINGS OPEN 2024 \u2014 After a year-long, global, community design process, the\u00a0Open Source Definition (OSAID) v.1.0\u00a0is available for public use.<\/p>\n
The release of version 1.0 was announced today at\u00a0All Things Open 2024, an industry conference focused on common issues of interest to the worldwide Open Source community. The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a\u00a0year-long co-design process\u00a0led by the\u00a0Open Source Initiative\u00a0(OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe co-design process that led to version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition was well-developed, thorough, inclusive and fair,\u201d said\u00a0Carlo Piana, OSI board chair. \u201cIt adhered to the principles laid out by the board, and the OSI leadership and staff followed our directives faithfully. The board is confident that the process has resulted in a definition that meets the standards of Open Source as defined in the Open Source Definition and the Four Essential Freedoms, and we\u2019re energized about how this definition positions OSI to facilitate meaningful and practical Open Source guidance for the entire industry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new definition requires Open Source models to provide enough information about their training data so that a \u2018skilled person can recreate a substantially equivalent system using the same or similar data,\u2019 which goes further than what many proprietary or ostensibly Open Source models do today,\u201d said Ayah Bdeir, who leads AI strategy at Mozilla. \u201cThis is the starting point to addressing the complexities of how AI training data should be treated, acknowledging the challenges of sharing full datasets while working to make open datasets a more commonplace part of the AI ecosystem. This view of AI training data in Open Source AI may not be a perfect place to be, but insisting on an ideologically pristine kind of gold standard that will not actually be met by any model builder could end up backfiring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome OSI\u2019s stewardship of the complex process of defining Open Source AI,\u201d said\u00a0Liv Marte Nordhaug, CEO of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) secretariat. \u201cThe Digital Public Goods Alliance secretariat will build on this foundational work as we update the DPG Standard as it relates to AI as a category of DPGs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTransparency is at the core of EleutherAI\u2019s non-profit mission. The Open Source AI Definition is a necessary step towards promoting the benefits of Open Source principles in the field of AI,\u201d said\u00a0Stella Biderman, executive director at the EleutherAI Institute. \u201cWe believe that this definition supports the needs of independent machine learning researchers and promotes greater transparency among the largest AI developers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cArriving at today\u2019s OSAID version 1.0 was a difficult journey, filled with new challenges for the OSI community,\u201d said OSI Executive Director,\u00a0Stefano Maffulli. \u201cDespite this delicate process, filled with differing opinions and uncharted technical frontiers\u2014and the occasional heated exchange\u2014the results are aligned with the expectations set out at the start of this two-year process. This is a starting point for a continued effort to engage with the communities to improve the definition over time as we develop with the broader Open Source community the knowledge to read and apply OSAID v.1.0.\u201d<\/p>\n
The text of the OSAID v.1.0 as well as a partial list of the many global stakeholders who endorse the definition can be found here: https:\/\/opensource.org\/ai<\/p>\n
About the Open Source InitiativeFounded in 1998, the\u00a0Open Source Initiative\u00a0(OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of Open Source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the Open Source community. It is the steward of the Open Source Definition and the Open Source AI Definition, setting the foundation for the global Open Source ecosystem. Join and support the OSI mission today at: https:\/\/opensource.org\/join.
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\nSource: opensource.org
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