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

An open letter calls for a review of the #European AI Act, claiming that existing provisions would hinder open source AI development.

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," noted GitHub in a blog post.