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    In other news, the Open Source Intiativeā€™s publicly bristled against the EUā€™s attempt to regulate AI, to the point of weakening said attempts.

    Tante, unsurprisingly, is not particularly impressed:

    Thank you OSI. To protect the purity of your license ā€“ which I do not consider to be open source ā€“ you are working towards making it harder for regulators to enforce certain standards within the usage of so-called ā€œAIā€ systems. Quick question: Who are you actually working for? (I know, it is corporations)

    The whole Open Source/Free Software movement has run its course and has been very successful for business. But it feels like somewhere along the line we as normal human beings have been left behind.

    You want my opinion, this is a major own-goal for the FOSS movement - sure, the OSI may have been technically correct where the EUā€™s demands conflicted with the Open Source Definition, but neutering EU regs like this means any harms caused by open-source AI will be done in FOSSā€™s name.

    Considering FOSSā€™s complete failure to fight corporate encirclement of their shit, this isnā€™t particularly surprising.