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

An open letter from GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons and other tech companies are calling the European Union to relieve upcoming guidelines for open-source artificial intelligence models.The letter prompts policymakers to evaluate some of the arrangements of the EUs Artificial Intelligence Act, declaring that regulating upstream open-source tasks as if they are industrial items or released AI systems would hinder open source AI advancement. Open letter calls EU regulators to support open source in the AI Act. Source: GitHub.As the term implies, open source software is software application that can be checked, customized, and enhanced by anybody because its source code is openly accessible.