The Ethical Source campaign, against both Software Freedom and Open Source licensing, is now spreading to use-restricting licensing of code, weights and training data for MOLE (Machine Operated Learning Emulators)

"We believe that normalizing the use of behavioral restrictions via licenses will encourage responsible use of powerful AI tools and systems by downstream users, while recognizing that there are limitations in enforcing such terms."

doi.org/10.1145/3531146.353314

#AI #MOLE

Note the first two authors have email addresses at major tech corporations; IBM and Microsoft. This "AI" licensing strategy is an attempt by tech corporations to maintain exclusive control of MOLE software, while pretending to be sort of, kind of, "Open Source".

But the usage restrictions are incompatible with the Open Source Definition:
opensource.org/osd/

They also violate Freedom 0:
gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.

Make no mistake, like all Ethical Source licenses, these are proprietary.

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@strypey I suspect corpos prefer ethics to morals for this very reason - ethics can be value-free.

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