Latest posts tagged with #openWashing on Bluesky
Gerade diskutiert @spinfocl die verschiedenen Aspekte von Offenheit bei LLMs: Gewichte, Inferencing Code, Trainingsdaten, Trainingslogik.
https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
https://isitopen.ai/
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.15802
https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3659005 […]
neue Folge im #Podcast "The Future is Open Science": "Open Washing: Randphänomen oder gängige Praxis?" podcast.zbw.eu/fos/2026/02/19/fos-57-op...
#OpenWashing #OpenScience
In unserem Podcast sprechen wir mit @scinoptica.bsky.social von der @uni-saarland.de über ein Phänomen, das in vielen Debatten rund um #OpenScience mitschwingt: #OpenWashing. Was ist das eigentlich und woran erkenne ich es? Was sind die Folgen für Wissenschaft und Transparenz? zbw.to/CZFmZ
Fuel Finder guidance: access the latest fuel prices and forecourt data via API or email www.gov.uk/guidance/acc...
Can't tell if this works – I get a 403 error – but just the fact that a GOV·UK One Login is required disqualifies it as #opendata
#fuelprices #govtech #openwashing
Sharing of price information 13.—(1) The aggregator must establish, make available and maintain an application programming interface for the purposes of sharing the price information ("the price API"). (2) The aggregator must provide the price information to information recipients in relation to each petrol filling station in respect of which the registration information is provided— (a)at all times on the price API, and (b)on two separate occasions on each day by means of an electronic document ("flat file"). (3) The aggregator must update the price API within 5 minutes of a motor fuel trader providing reportable information. (4) The aggregator must ensure that the flat file provided under paragraph (2)(b) includes the most recent price information. (5) The aggregator may specify standards relating to the use by information recipients of the price API, the flat file and the price information. (6) The aggregator may withhold the price information from an information recipient if the information recipient does not comply with standards specified by the aggregator under paragraph (5).
Despite the title, nothing in the UK Government's regulations for the Fuel Finder scheme requires that the information will be available on #opendata terms. That's up to the aggregator (VE3 Global).
#roadfuel #fuelprices #openwashing
[Veille] 1 préprint @hal-science.bsky.social intriguant 🧐 !"G. Silhol, H. Dillaerts, Ch.Boukacem-Zeghmouri. Légitimations et subversions de l'Open : pour une analyse de l'openwashing dans la publication scientifique. 2025" hal.science/hal-05363533v1
#openscience #openaccess #openwashing #publishing
#YanivBenhamou #OAI14: Spectrum of openness in license- permissive <-> restricted. OA are accessible but not fully #opensource vs Mistral. #openWashing - AI vendors promoting models as OS when they're really not - unitarily apply restricting licensing term (Llama 2) but terms contain restrictions
Great podcast episode about #openwashing by @fsfe.org
Software Freedom Podcast: SFP#40: How to tackle Openwashing?
Episode webpage: fsfe.org/news/podcast...
Media file: download.fsfe.org/audio/podcas...
Sharing of price information 13.—(1) The aggregator must establish, make available and maintain an application programming interface for the purposes of sharing the price information ("the price API"). (2) The aggregator must provide the price information to information recipients in relation to each petrol filling station in respect of which the registration information is provided— (a) at all times on the price API, and (b) on two separate occasions on each day by means of an electronic document ("flat file"). (3) The aggregator must update the price API within 5 minutes of a motor fuel trader providing reportable information. (4) The aggregator must ensure that the flat file provided under paragraph (2)(b) includes the most recent price information. (5) The aggregator may specify standards relating to the use by information recipients of the price API, the flat file and the price information. (6) The aggregator may withhold the price information from an information recipient if the information recipient does not comply with standards specified by the aggregator under paragraph (5).
The Motor Fuel Price (Open Data) Regulations 2025 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9...
Draft regulations for the UK Government's Fuel Finder scheme. Notwithstanding the title, the regs do not mandate publication of #opendata conformant with the Open Definition.
#govtech #fuelprices #openwashing
Update: turns out that there's one of those pesky non-commercial clauses on this project that, unfortunately, turns this whole project into #openwashing (unless the clause is time-limited or there's a stretch goal to make it properly #copyleft ). #Inkjet
hub.azkware.net/display/6e2ecb…
Update: turns out that there's one of those pesky non-commercial clauses on this project that, unfortunately, turns this whole project into #openwashing (unless the clause is time-limited or there's a stretch goal to make it properly #copyleft ). #Inkjet
I just saw a journal article author OVER THE MOON because his publisher CHOSE to make his article "open access"... for ONE YEAR.
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This is not a criticism of the author, but of the publisher...
One year?! That's the best that publishers can do? That's almost worse than traditional #openwashing
Update September 1 Proton's Lumo account on BlueSky has responded to this post saying "Lumo isn't a model; it uses open models, including the model listed as the best for openness in this piece. You can find the models Lumo uses in our privacy policy". That page repeats the open source claim: Lumo’s code is open source, meaning anyone can see it’s secure and does what it claims to. We’re constantly improving Lumo with the latest models that give the best user experience. The only open source code we have found is for the Lumo mobile and web apps. Proton calling the Lumo AI assistant open source based on that is a bit like Microsoft calling Windows open source just because there's a github repository for Windows Terminal.
We have updated our post. Will you update your marketing materials to tone down the open-washing? osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr... #OpenWashing
About that... we audited the open source status of Lumo and found it came in rock bottom in the EU Open Source AI Index osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr... — consider sharing more details to rise through the openness ranks, @proton.me 🫣
#OpenSource #OpenWashing #lumo
Now that’s a nice service/page listing popular software projects and checking whether they actually are #FOSS or if they’re just #openwashing. https://isitreallyfoss.com/
Not #opendata. Although the press release talks about BGS's "commitment to providing more open, accessible data for its users", the scanned images available via the online map viewer are not covered by an open licence – users are invited to purchase copies.
#geospatial #opengov #openwashing
Otra plataforma privativa que juega al #openwashing y en realidad es un #honeypot para la gente interesada en la privacidad. Varias veces he visto esto, pero rara vez ambas cosas en simultáneo
Und kein #Openwashing - danke für die Frage :)
A new #Trump executive order defines a "gold standard" for federally-funded science.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/202...
Three points for now, and more later.
1. Most of the standards (3.a.i-ix) are borrowed from #OpenScience movement or […]
Initially published in April 2010, Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" is a good reminder that when an ecosystem claims to be "open", you have to be cautious.
Apple's ecosystem is mostly closed, but they are honest about that fact.
While many systems fighting to gain market share claim to be […]
In its response, the City Council stated that the Open Data Hackathon would be held in August 2024 and included a link to a news item about it on its website. However, upon verification, analysts found no evidence of the hackathon—no announcements, program, photo reports, or information about participants. Using the Wayback Machine, it was discovered that the provided link had previously displayed a completely unrelated news item—about the schedule of classes for seniors at the Ternopil City Territorial Center.
Ukrainian city of Ternopil invents fake hackathon to climb transparency ranking biz.liga.net/en/amp/all/a...
Transparency International Ukraine press release (in Ukrainian) transparentcities.in.ua/news/ternopi...
#localgov #opendata #openwashing
Caught out by the Wayback Machine, many such cases
Scooby Doo meme: A masked person shown as "Hyperscaler Souvereign Cloud" has their masked pulled off by "Offene Gesellschaft" to reveal "AWS, GCP, Azure" "as far as the US Cloud Act is concerned"
Caveat emptor.
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenWashing #SovereignWashing #EUWashing #bsi #CyberSecurity
Delighted to see MEP's taking up the fight against #Meta's #Llama #OpenWashing, and referencing the #OSAID as a potential solution.
The OSI will keep fighting Open washing in Europe and around the world! 💪 🇪🇺 […]
It's extremely unfortunate that a small minority in the #OpenSource community who have previously spoken very favourably about Meta's #Llama, or even gone as far as labelling it as Open Source, are claiming the OSI's OSAID is what enabled #Meta's #Openwashing.
Meta's Open washing predates the […]
I'm excited to introduce my work-in-progress on #Openwashing & Immunity at #santaclaralaw. Thanks @ericgoldman.bsky.social and organizers of the internet law WIP. Who else is coming?
Probably shouldn't have called your product "open" if you didn't want this to happen. #openwashing
