Open Source Can Disrupt Big Tech’s Grip on The Public Sector

Links for this episode: re-search.siteopenwebsearch.euopenwebindex.euopenwebsearch.eu/openwebsearch-eu-offers-entire-web-directory-curlie-org-as-free-downloadandersvisti.dkpublicai.co (Apertus)

Some companies market their generative AI models as open source when they are not open about what data they have used for training them. One such example is Meta’s Llama. It is only open weight. But we are seeing some truly open source generative AI models coming up. Listen to our podcast. And find more here: dataethics.eu/opensource Shownotes for this episode Paper on open washing: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3630106.3659005 Intellectual Property Cases re GenAI mishcon.com/generative-ai-intellectual-property-cases-and-policy-tracker Settlement between Antropic and book publishers: wizcase.com/news/anthropic-wins-ruling-in-copyright-lawsuit Data Sheets for Data Sets (2021), Timnit Gebru et al arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09010 German win on music rights: euronews.com/next/2025/11/11/openai-chatbots-cannot-use-song-lyrics-without-paying-german-court-rules-in-landmark-trial A European Open Source Index digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/europes-open-source-ai-landscape-lever-innovation-and-sovereignty Tilde – a european open source foundation language model tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/ A new report on the European Open-Source AI Landscape reveals where the EU stands today and how scaling adoption of Open Source AI can boost competitiveness and strengthen digital sovereignty. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/europes-open-source-ai-landscape-lever-innovation-and-sovereignty The Model Openness Framework arxiv.org/pdf/2403.13784

We’re at Cafe Mellemrummet at Nørrebro in Copenhagen to follow mappers updating OpenStreetMap and to talk to Ove Larsen and Søren Johannessen about their voluntary work. Shownotes for this episode Show me the way, where the mappers can see their updates live StreetComplete, Open Street Maps inspection app OpenStreetMap.org Every Door, OSM editor PhD project Processes Behind Surfaces: Mobilities and Practices of the Danish OpenStreetMap Community Map for people in need OSM examples OpenStreetMap Copenhagen on Mastodon

Shownotes for this episode: Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) European Commission’s strategic roadmap on open source. Renée Ridgway’s paper will be added here, once published.