https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/ai-open-source-eu

The EU needs to do more to support the development of open source AI in the EU AI Act, a group of leading developers and open source companies has warned. GitHub, Hugging Face and the Creative Commons Foundation are among the signatories of an open letter to the European Parliament. However, one AI expert told Tech Monitor open source isn’t compatible with safe AI deployment as there is no easy way to take responsibility for misuse.

The open letter was sent to policy makers in the EU and lists a series of suggestions for the European Parliament to consider when drafting the final version of the AI Act. This includes clearer definitions of AI components, clarifying that hobbyists and researchers working on open source models don't commercially benefit from their code, and allowing real-world testing of AI projects.