This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
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:
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.
It's open season for refusing AI
There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.
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 Pentagon’s bombshell deal with OpenAI, explained
Only Congress can put meaningful limits on government abuse of AI.
AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code
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.
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...
AI creates asymmetric pressure on Open Source
How Open Source communities can adapt to AI-generated contributions without overwhelming Open Source maintainers
Why AI is now important on Open Source - Scan's leaflet
If you can't fight them, join them
“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
Discourse is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
"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
AI*-generated copyright infringement
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
Bing Is Generating Images of SpongeBob Doing 9/11
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content
