Notes on BLOOM, RAIL, and openness of AI

The launch of BLOOM, an open language model capable of generating text, and the related RAIL open licenses by BigScience, together with the launch of Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image language, shows that a new approach to open licensing is emerging. In Notes on BLOOM, RAIL, and openness of AI, Alek outlines the challenges to established ways of understanding open faced by AI researchers, as they aim to enforce their vision of not just open, but also responsible AI.