[License-discuss] resignation in protest

[Stefano Maffulli]

I'm sorry to see you go. You've been a valued contributor to License
Discuss for som  time. You are welcome to rejoin at any time.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 7:52 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

> This is protesting both your recent biased process towards
> judging so-called “AI” and the way your members treat multiple
> high-profile community leaders, including rejecting their opinion
> offhand due to the aforementioned bias despite at the same time
> pretending to be collecting community feedback.
>

The process has just started, there is nothing written in stone and the
feedback collection is in its infancy. The OSI has no official position of
what constitutes an "open AI". Is it possible that  you're getting the
wrong impression from one blog post, one live session at a conference and
sporading interactions on mastodon?

OSI also has an open call for proposals to collect ideas and feedback:
https://opensource.org/deepdive/

The definition of "open AI" (whatever its name will be) will come after
many months of discussions, we're at the very beginning.

Regards
Stef

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 7:50 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

> Dear OSI,
>
> I hereby resign under protest from also the licence discuss list.
> This is protesting both your recent biased process towards
> judging so-called “AI” and the way your members treat multiple
> high-profile community leaders, including rejecting their opinion
> offhand due to the aforementioned bias despite at the same time
> pretending to be collecting community feedback.
>
> Indeed, when your Executive Director actively promotes private
> use of technology, hand-waving away security issues, and telling
> people to “talk to AI developers”, this sounds like not only has
> the OSI lost its goals, but also like those news outlets giving
> conspiracy theorists the same amount of platform/recognisation
> as actual experts in their area of expertise.
>
> Stop it before you make yourself obsolete.
>
> I ask that other concerned individuals also speak out, perhaps
> in a form and forum appropriate (but which that is I don’t know
> given that OSI members just refuse to engage anywhere concerns
> are raised, without giving an appropriate feedback medium).
>
> Goodbye,
> //mirabilos
> --
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> when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy
> them.
> If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny
> existence.              -- Coywolf Qi Hunt
>
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