In other news, the Open Source Intiative's publicly bristled against the EU'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 – which I do not consider to be open source – you are working towards making it harder for regulators to enforce certain standards within the usage of so-called “AI” 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 EU'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 FOSS's name.
Considering FOSS's complete failure to fight corporate encirclement of their shit, this isn't particularly surprising.
Yud was right - we should bomb the shit out of AI servers!
Not to prevent a superintelligent AI from becoming sentient and killing us all, but because this shit should not be allowed to fucking exist
EDIT: For context, this was reacting to Erikson showing me AI-generated Ghibli memes.