Linux Foundation’s adoption of OMI could pave way for ethical LLMs, analysts say
The Open Model Initiative aims to create what it calls community LLMs that are equal or better in quality to proprietary models, but free of restrictive licensing terms that limit their usage.
The Linux Foundation’s move to take the Open Model Initiative (OMI) under its wing could pave the way “more ethical” large language models (LLMs), analysts say.
“One of the core objectives for OMI and its induction into the Linux Foundation is to propagate an ethical use of data (text/images) to train generative AI models,” said Abhigyan Malik, practice director of data, analytics, and AI at the Everest Group.
However, Malik warned that the practice of training models with ethical data will become increasingly difficult, given the wider understanding of data protection and with popular sources changing their privacy and usage policies.
Several proprietary LLM providers, such as Open AI and Stability AI, are currently facing lawsuits that claim that these companies violated copyrights while training their models.
