GitHub, Hugging Face, urge EU to relax open-source AI rules By Cointelegraph

An open letter from GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons and other tech firms is calling on the European Union to ease upcoming rules for open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models.

The letter urges policymakers to review some of the provisions of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act, claiming that regulating upstream open-source projects as if they are commercial products or deployed AI systems would hinder open-source AI development. “This would be incompatible with open source development practices and counter to the needs of individual developers and non-profit research organizations,” stated GitHub in a blog post.