OSI are soliciting signups by March 7 so you can vote in the upcoming election—help maintain its meaning for AI:
HOWTO: Apply for free Student membership of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) https://samjohnston.org/2025/02/27/howto-apply-for-free-student-membership-of-the-open-source-initiative-osi/
Sam Johnston
samj@samj.net
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Australian computer scientist in North America
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/
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
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.”


NBC News
Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database to identify potential hires for the incoming administration, a person f...
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?


FOSS Force
Will Partnership With Eclipse Help OSI Come to Its Senses on Open Source AI? - FOSS Force
Will the partnership with Eclipse help OSI understand that the Open Source AI Definition fails to meet just about any open-source smell test?
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
AGI is here.
Maybe.
New MIT Research Proves AGI Was Achieved


Geeky Gadgets
New MIT Research Proves AGI Was Achieved
MIT's AI breakthrough: Machines now surpass human reasoning, unlocking new potential for Artificial General Intelligence.
“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 

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 (@sj@mas.to), Nostr (samj@samj.net), and Threads (@sam.j.johnston)?
Is this thing on?
#introductions