On Sat, 2025-01-25 at 15:29 +0000, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Nothing to do with Debian Policy, no. > > I'm just interested in your thoughts on the matter.
If we look at the history. Richard Stallman started the GNU project at a time point where individual developers and free software communities can really create software, and define what "free software" is. If "free software" was defined at a time point where individuals and free software communities could not write software on their own, that definition may turn into a Utopia declaration. Similarly, we are not yet in an era where individuals and free software communities can easily create original, useful, and competitive AI from scratch (to ensure, e.g., reproducibility and trustworthiness). Particularly for language models. Currently, the model creators can do any decision regarding their decisions, regardless of how we define terminologies. That said, with the advancements of research, and the whole communities appreciation and recognition on the value of free and open source, that day will come sooner or later for language models. Creating some simpler vision or language AIs by individual is already possible. So the hard deadline for this matter is the day when people can freely create and publish AIs. We will be too late at that time point. While I disagree on OSAID's requirement on training data, it is directing at the right direction. I can see OSI is making compromises due to the dilemma that they need something to apply in practice and take action, while free/open source communities can not yet create and own language models. What we have seen from OSI is possibly the best they can do at the current time point. >From the Debian side, my concerns are unchanged. The OSAID does not guarantee freedom to our user. I think FSF is keeping an eye on this. Let me try to make a draft within Feburary.
