Open-source AI
The software code is available under a license that permits people to inspect, use, modify, and redistribute it. Truly open development should explain what is released and under which rights.
Keep AI Open
Keep AI open. Protect free speech and privacy.
Defend open-source and open-weight AI, and the freedom to build, share, and use it without censorship, surveillance, or government permission.
Take actionOpen technology. Free speech. Private computing.
Open developmentThe freedom to build
Free speechThe freedom to inquire
PrivacyThe freedom to use AI privately
CompetitionNo government-picked winners
Innovation, not permission
Open models and independent developers should be free to compete.
This campaign opposes government restrictions and industry cartels that shut out competitors, censor lawful expression, or make private AI use impossible.
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The fight is over who gets to control intelligence.
Like it or not, AI is becoming a way people research, learn, create, and communicate. If access is limited to approved companies, those companies and the governments influencing them gain extraordinary power over private thought and lawful expression.
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Closed services can record prompts, inspect documents, restrict answers, withdraw access, and change their rules. Open models create another path. People can examine them, improve them, preserve them, and run them without asking a platform for permission.
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What “open” actually means
Open source and open weights are related, but they are not the same promise.
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Open-weight AI
The trained model parameters can be downloaded and run. The training data or full development process may still be closed, so “open weight” is not a synonym for fully open source.
Local AI
A model runs on a device you control. Your prompts and files do not have to be sent to a cloud provider, giving privacy a technical foundation rather than a policy promise.
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Three freedoms rise or fall together.
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Open technology: the freedom to build
People should be able to publish, download, study, modify, fine-tune, redistribute, and sell lawful general-purpose models.
Free speech: the freedom to inquire
Governments should not decide which lawful ideas a model may discuss, generate, translate, analyze, or criticize.
Privacy: the freedom to think privately
Using AI should not require an identity check or surrendering prompts, documents, political interests, and creative work to a monitored service.
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How an open field becomes a permission system
Control rarely arrives under that name. It arrives as a sequence of reasonable-sounding gates that only the largest institutions can pass.
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- RegisterDevelopers and models enter a government system.
- Seek approvalTraining or release depends on official evaluation.
- Monitor useProviders log users, prompts, outputs, or computing activity.
- Restrict releaseWeights, code, and research become controlled material.
The result is not safer competition. It is a market where incumbents can afford compliance and independent developers need permission to exist.
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Where we draw the line
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Defend
- The freedom to build, study, and share AI
- Open-source software and open-weight models
- Private, offline, and local use
- Permissionless research and independent competition
- Accountability for specific unlawful conduct
Oppose
- Requiring licenses to train, publish, or run general-purpose AI
- Industry cartels that restrict access or shut out independent developers
- Government-mandated censorship of lawful output
- Identity checks, prompt logs, and user registration
- Mandatory backdoors, monitoring, or remote shutdown
- Liability that makes creators answer for every downstream use
Regulate harmful conduct. Do not require prior permission to create knowledge, publish software, or compute in private.
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Openness creates choice.
Open models give people alternatives to systems they cannot inspect, change, or run privately.
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Open sourceDevelopers inspect, improve, and redistribute code.
Open weightPeople download and adapt trained models.
LocalUsers keep sensitive work on their own devices.
People should be able to choose their tools, adapt them to their needs, and keep sensitive work private. Neither governments nor industry cartels should take those choices away.
Defend open, private, and uncensored AI.
Follow legislation that would control who may build and use AI. Tell lawmakers to target unlawful conduct instead of licensing general-purpose technology.
Contact your lawmakers
Ask your representatives to defend free speech, private computing, and the freedom to develop and use AI.