OpenWashing - or: What does #OpenSource mean in AI? 🤖🔓

Spoiler: not so much! Labelling content as #OpenSource signals a particular commitment to transparency and accountability. 🌐🛡️ The EU AI act to promote open source-driven innovation has relaxed some of the rules for LLMs under open source licences. ⚖️🎉

A detailed analysis of the aspects of openness shows that the image of openness takes many scratches, with openAI / chatGPT coming bottom of the list as the least open LLM analysed. 📊🤔

“Our survey has offered a first glimpse at the detrimental effects of open-washing by companies looking to evade scientific, regulatory and legal scrutiny”

See the paper dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/1… and the results matrix opening-up-chatgpt.github.io