![text-heavy screenshot from an article. The text reads: "if everything hinges on licensing, what is to stop model providers from releasing the most inscrutable portion of their system (say, model weights) under an OSI-approved licence and collect open source benefits? This stands to be a major avenue for open-washing.
There is nothing imaginary about this. For one, we are already seeing a strong trend towards selective and self-serving forms of openness, both in release strategies and in empirical surveys of model openness ([32, 53, 60], and see below). Also, other sectors offer well-known precedents of such dynamics. Take fair trade coffee. (...) Within a decade, [fair trade] was adopted by multinationals like Starbucks and Nestlé, who turned it into an efficient marketing tool: green-washing at work. Sociological research has established that this resulted in these multinationals effectively co-opting the notion of fair trade. This work provides an important lesson on the playbook of corporate lobbies: “co-optation... occurs primarily on the terrain of standards, in the form of weakening or dilution” [26].
We conclude that if open licensing becomes the sole deciding factor for model openness, the open source community faces the risk that community standards will be co-opted and diluted just as Starbucks and Nestlé have co-opted and diluted the notion of fair trade in coffee. Open licensing could become an empty gesture."](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/15807231 "text-heavy screenshot from an article. The text reads: \"if everything hinges on licensing, what is to stop model providers from releasing the most inscrutable portion of their system (say, model weights) under an OSI-approved licence and collect open source benefits? This stands to be a major avenue for open-washing.
There is nothing imaginary about this. For one, we are already seeing a strong trend towards selective and self-serving forms of openness, both in release strategies and in empirical surveys of model openness ([32, 53, 60], and see below). Also, other sectors offer well-known precedents of such dynamics. Take fair trade coffee. (...) Within a decade, [fair trade] was adopted by multinationals like Starbucks and Nestlé, who turned it into an efficient marketing tool: green-washing at work. Sociological research has established that this resulted in these multinationals effectively co-opting the notion of fair trade. This work provides an important lesson on the playbook of corporate lobbies: “co-optation... occurs primarily on the terrain of standards, in the form of weakening or dilution” [26].
We conclude that if open licensing becomes the sole deciding factor for model openness, the open source community faces the risk that community standards will be co-opted and diluted just as Starbucks and Nestlé have co-opted and diluted the notion of fair trade in coffee. Open licensing could become an empty gesture.\"")
If you're attending #OSSummit in #Vienna this week, don't miss @martinhickey 's talks on #InstructLab - osseu2024.sched.com/speaker/mh…
#OSSEU #Opensource #LLMs
With both Will Vincent & Carlton Gibson also giving talks on the Wednesday and a good friend made at least years DjangoCon US Andrew Mshar running the Lightning Talks for the conference ⚡
What are you looking forward to?
Also, would you like to see a CV/Resume Lightning Talk?
Meanwhile in Moscow....
A day in court.
Grigory Melkonyants is accused of ties to the "undesirable" European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO**), which was banned in 2021.
Melkonyants himself does not admit guilt, and his lawyers draw attention to the fact that all the materials seized during the search date back to before 2015.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin
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This is a wild but convincing argument for Earth having had a temporary ring half a billion years ago, and it being the source for most of the identified crater remnants in #Sweden 🤯
Tomkins et al: "Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the #Ordovician"
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h/t @asrivkin
Eine kleine Entscheidungshilfe für Österreicher*innen hier:
#lauteshirn #Österreich #nationalratswahl2024 #nationalratswahl24 #klimakrise #hochwasser
RUSSIAN BOMB SHELTER
In Kazan, Russia, signs with shelter addresses do not contain information about where the keys are located or the phone number of the official
The shelter in the photograph is open; however, it is a small room with bars.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin
“This keyboard layout is called a QAZ/35% layout, where the Q, A, and Z keys are gone.”
“My friend always said my 35 didn’t have enough keys so I designed this layout as a joke but enough people liked it that I decided to actually make it.”
#ShiftHappens #MechanicalKeyboards
La fin de carrière peu glorieuse du patron du «Journal de l’île de La Réunion»
Jacques Tillier, patron du «#JIR» pendant des décennies, était connu pour ses attaques ad hominem à longueur d’éditoriaux. La #liquidation du quotidien, le 31 juillet, sonne le glas d’une longue carrière faite d’excès et d’intérêts bien compris, notamment financiers.
› mediapart.fr/journal/france/16…
Ein deutscher Politiker, ich glaube Markus Söder, hat vor ner Weile mal folgende Beobachtung gemacht:
Wenn du als Landespolitiker Hochwasserschutz durchsetzen willst, hassen dich alle. Die Gemeinden, die Bauern...
Wenn du dagegen bei ner Überschwemmung mit Gummistiefeln und ernstem Gesicht im Katastrophengebiet auftauchst, kriegst du Titelseiten und Applaus.
Ich vermute, das ist ein wichtiger Zeil des Problems.
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"Microsoft has really done it. A giant Russian company is completely abandoning Windows and switching 130,000 workstations to Russian Linux"
- Headline in Russian media
Russian Post has decided to abandon Windows and switch to Russian Linux of the Alt family. Windows OS will be removed from 130,000 computers.
I wonder how the mail will work in Russia now.
By the way, Microsoft officially left Russia in early 2022, but in Russia, many people continue to use its products.
#AureFreePress #News
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Elle a peut être oublié le "14" devant 90 ?
(Oui je sais, j'essaye de voir un truc logique où yen a pas)
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