Open source content is associated with transparency and accountability, and recent changes to EU AI law have relaxed rules to encourage open source-driven innovation.

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

Looking specifically at text-to-image systems, the openAI model Dall-e again comes last, the most open being Stable Diffusion. 📊🤔

See the paper and the results matrix

Table with text-to-image systems and criteria for openness