Notices tagged with opensource
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Tantek ()'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 10:47:00 EDT Tantek Dear Creative Commons (@creativecommons.org @creativecommons@mastodon.social @creativecommons@x.com),
Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial?
My previous post¹ reminded me that I’ve been creating, writing, inventing, and then sharing things with #CreativeCommons (CC) #licenses for a long time (I have to see if I can dig up my first use of CC licenses.)
I’ve used and recommended a variety of CC licenses for decades, e.g.
* CC0 — for standards work, e.g. I drove and wrote up https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards/licensing (with help from lawyers)
* CC-BY — aforementioned blog post (and other snippets of #openSource)
* CC-BY-NC — photos on Flickr (dozens of which have been used in publications²)
* CC-SA — for CASSIS³, which I still consider experimental enough that I chose "share-alike" to deliberately slow its spread, and hopefully reduce mutations (while allowing ports of its functions to other languages)
So I have some idea of what I’m talking about.
There have been LOTS of discussions of the challenges, downsides, and disagreements with sweeping use of copyrighted content to train generated artificial intelligence AKA #genAI software and services, sometimes also called #machineLearning. The most common examples being Large Language Models AKA #LLM, but also models for generating images and video. Smart, intelligent, and well-intentioned people disagree on who has rights to do what, or even who should do what in this regard.
There have been many proposals for new standards, or updates to existing standards like robots.txt etc. but I have not really seen them make noticeable progress. There are also lots of techniques published that attempt to block the spiders and bots being used to crawl and collect content for GenAI, an arms race that ends up damaging well-established popular uses such as web search engines (or making it harder to build a new one).
The brilliant innovation of Creative Commons was to look at the use-cases and intentions of creators publishing on the web in the 2000s and capture them in a small handful of clear licenses with human readable summaries.
Creatives are clamoring for a simple way to opt-out of their publicly published content from being used to train GenAI. New Creative Commons licenses solve this.
This seems like an obvious thing to me. If you can write a license that forbids “commercial use”, then you should be able to write a license that forbids use in “training models”, which respectful / well-written crawlers should (hopefully) respect, in as much as they respect existing CC licenses.
I saw that Creative Commons published a position paper⁴ for for an IETF workshop on this topic, and it unfortunately in my opinion has an overly cautious and pessimistic (outright conservative one could say) outlook, one that frankly I believe the founders of Creative Commons (who dared to boldly create something new) would probably be disappointed in.
First, there is no Creative Commons license on the Creative Commons position paper. Why?
Second, there are no names of authors on the Creative Commons position paper. Why?
Lots of people similarly (to the position paper) said the original Creative Commons licenses were a bad idea, or would not be used, or would be ignored, or would otherwise not work as intended. They were wrong.
If I were a lawyer I would fork those existing licenses and produce such “CC-NT” (for “no-training”) variants (though likely prefix them with something else since "CC" means Creative Commons) just to show it could be done, a proof of concept as it were that creators could use.
Or perhaps a few of us could collect funds to pay an intellectual property lawyer to do so, and of course donate all the work produced to the commons, so that Creative Commons (or someone else) could take it, re-use it, build upon it.
Someone needs to take such a bold step, just as Creative Commons itself took a bold step when they dared to create portable re-usable content licenses that any creator could use (a huge innovation at the time, for content, inspired in no doubt by portable re-usable open source licenses⁵).
References:
¹ https://tantek.com/2024/263/t1/20-years-undohtml-css-resets
² https://flickr.com/search/?user_id=tantek&tags=press&view_all=1
³ https://tantek.com/github/cassis
⁴ Creative Commons Position Paper on Preference Signals, https://www.ietf.org/slides/slides-aicontrolws-creative-commons-position-paper-on-preference-signals-00.pdf
⁵ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses -
Minetest (minetest)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jan-2019 18:40:50 EST Minetest Minetest is an open-source voxel game engine. Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server. https://www.minetest.net/
Minetest has a very active community of players, modders, and game designers, and a large amount of content available: https://content.minetest.net/
This account is managed by @rubenwardy, a core developer.
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dmaphy (dmaphy)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-2018 16:45:59 EST dmaphy Just used F-Droid to install G-Droid. And that's basically everything you need to know about the concept of #freesoftware. #opensource #freeyourandroid #fsfe
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LPS (lps)'s status on Friday, 13-Jul-2018 22:03:19 EDT LPS Let's make the Web free again, support open standards/protocols and decentralize everything.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."R. Buckminster Fuller
@peertube @pixelfed @Gargron @framasoft
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/07/11/royalty-free-web-video-codecs/
#opensource #codecs #freesoftware #mozilla #buckminsterfuller #quotes
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Björn Schießle (bes)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2017 04:46:09 EDT Björn Schießle Thanks to all the people working so hard to drive software freedom forward! Happy Software Freedom Day! #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #SFD2017 https://io.schiessle.org/attachment/53807 -
omeelog (omeelog)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2017 13:46:47 EDT omeelog ♻ Jonathan Le Lous @JollFr
Clouds are Linux ;-) #CloudComputing #opensource
!libregraphics !owncloud !owncloud !nextcloud !linux !fs !foss
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Joel Purra (joelpurra)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2017 09:45:55 EST Joel Purra I live in Germany and could apply for this 30.000€ #grant. Have an #opensource project suggestion for me? https://prototypefund.de/en/ -
Tantek ()'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2017 15:06:45 EST Tantek Starting a modest #IndieWeb#100Daysof Positive Posts #100DoPP, inspired by@aaronpk#100DaysOfIndieWeb#100daysofmusic,@jkphl#100daysof #opensource,@sebsel#100dagen500woorden, and@gRegorLove#100Wordsin 100 Days.
Despite being an optimist, I’m also expecting many (more) things to (start to) go wrong today with the inauguration of the new@POTUS. And since they’re often measured on their first 100 days in office, I’m making a deliberate effort to post at least something positive every day, preferably at the start of the day, as a direct counter.
The basic idea for #100DoPP:
* Every day: post something positive on your own site
* whether something positive you did (ideally)
* a positive / constructive idea or suggestion
* or something positive someone else is doing or suggesting
* Preferably *before* posting anything negative that same day
I’m not sure if I’ve ever had 100 continuous days of posts on my site, so I’m expecting to have to make this a part of my daily routine just to make sure it happens.
@Twitterand other so-called “social media” make it easy to post *something* every day to their silos, so 100 days of that is not interesting in my opinion.
It’s also easier to complain than to be constructive.
Thus despite not being as ambitious ashttps://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofindiewebor certainlyhttps://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofmusic(which is seriously amazing), I expect 100 days of deliberately positive posts, on one’s own site, to be no small feat. Perhaps a medium feat. ;)
Up for the challenge? Join me and tag your posts #100DoPP.
Up for more? See:https://indieweb.org/100DaysOfIndieWebfor additional 100 Days projects. -
Björn Schießle (bes)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 16:02:27 EDT Björn Schießle The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) fighting for your rights for over 15 years. Join us now!
https://io.schiessle.org/url/20068
#FSFE #FreeSoftware #OpenSource !FOSS -
Björn Schießle (bes)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Aug-2016 16:02:27 EDT Björn Schießle The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) fighting for your rights for over 15 years. Join us now!
https://io.schiessle.org/url/20068
#FSFE #FreeSoftware #OpenSource !FOSS -
majestyx (majestyx)'s status on Saturday, 27-Feb-2016 02:34:36 EST majestyx sooooo very early this morning .... but, the sun is shining, also a good day for #freesoftware #opensource and !gnusocial - guten morgähn! ;-) -
Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Friday, 27-Nov-2015 19:25:47 EST Christopher M. Hobbs I just picked up a LAN Turtle and a USB Rubber Ducky for an upcoming pentesting gig. They're a bit nefarious but I'm sure they could yield great fun. I got them here: http://hakshop.myshopify.com/ I believe they're #opensource but I'm not sure if they're #freesoftware. -
majestyx (majestyx)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jul-2015 15:12:39 EDT majestyx #opensource #code #freesoftware #floss #ilovefs #gnu #linux !fediverse !gnusocial **BIG** THANKS @all #podmin !podmin YOU rocks !! too :-) #digitalhuge https://gnusocial.no/attachment/14416 -
Dejvid Pervy (amnezic)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2015 06:38:37 EDT Dejvid Pervy free computing is out! http://quitter.se/url/1014472 next edition in 22h #opensource #gnu -
Dejvid Pervy (amnezic)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jul-2015 06:38:37 EDT Dejvid Pervy free computing is out! http://quitter.se/url/1014472 next edition in 22h #opensource #gnu -
pagsheathenman (pagsheathenman)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2015 19:48:57 EDT pagsheathenman #opensource #php based #search #engine http://spid8.pags.to first tests, started index of !gnusocial related t… -
marc0s (marc0s)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Mar-2015 13:30:35 EST marc0s The #OpenSource panel at #WebRTCBCN https://status.tenak.net/attachment/4823
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isamafifi (isamafifi)'s status on Friday, 27-Feb-2015 09:31:54 EST isamafifi !fs !gnusocial hi guys, I want to help somebody in the embedded systems fields, I know that you must have … -
Roland Haeder (roland)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2015 05:27:24 EST Roland Haeder @johndoe von der Grundidee her finde ich es gut, ein weiteres soziales #OpenSource Netz zu schrei… -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2014 21:53:52 EST Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca ♻ ownCloud community @ownClouders: the !ownCloud #iOS app is now #opensource and open for contribution…