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Using AI in open source
If you want to use AI to help you contribute to one of the projects I maintain, I would be delighted. But I have rules.
AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source
How Open Source communities can adapt to AI-generated contributions without overwhelming Open Source maintainers
For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward
Proprietary AI is both too expensive and too centralized in control for most countries and companies to rely upon.
The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0
version 1.0 See FAQsSee list of endorsementsSee ChecklistEndorse the OSAID Preamble Why we need Open Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) Open Source has demonstrated that massive benefits accrue to…
Open source was not ready for AI-speed contributions
AI did not create the maintainer burden problem in open source. It accelerated it. Contributors are being amplified, but maintainers are still the verification bottleneck.
The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:
From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative...
AI development is embracing open-source paradigm, but the fundamental distinction between AI models and traditional software artifacts may lead to a divergent open-source development paradigm with...
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs | TechCrunch
OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.
How open source projects need to adapt to the AI coding era | We Love Open Source • All Things Open
A new Carnegie Mellon study shows AI coding tools boost velocity by 281% — then leave codebases harder to work with. Here's what open source communities need to do before the sugar rush wears off.
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
AI Is a Waste of Time
The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves
✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms
Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves
Going beyond open data – increasing transparency and trust in language models with OLMoTrace | Ai2
Ai2, a non-profit research institute founded by Paul Allen, is committed to breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.
"AI makes it cheaper to contribute to Open Source, but it's not making life easier for maintainers. More contributions are flowing in, but the burden of evaluating them still falls on the same small group of people. That asymmetric pressure risks breaking maintainers." also relevant to slop science
