The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part I: Complaints to IRS or USDOJ Needed
So after many delays and cautious procrastination we've put in the necessary effort to verify claims and go ahead with the next mini-series [1, 2].
As a reminder, the OSI is already under investigation in California, where it is based.
"So our point of contact," an informant said, "who was banned, informed me a while ago about potential lobbying issues with the OSI" (relying on special status for tax exemption/returns).
"Today I was sent a few links," the informant said. "When was Stefano on Mastodon requesting that the US government use their sad OSAID?"
"I have not filed a complaint With the IRS or DOJ yet. Maybe someone can who is involved in the lobbying or who knows more about it…"
Well, here is the Microsoft-funded lobbyist (based in the EU) pressing the US government on openwashing and "AI" hype:
He's basically pushing "AI" hype (what his paymasters asked him to do) whilst openwashing proprietary things and covering up GPL violations by Microsoft.
"I am currently training a model locally with a small data set," the informant said. "But I have a lot of other things going on, [so] the intent there is to show that the status [of the OSI] does matter, [...] and datasets of shared models need to be open source! And also that you can have your private On-Prem local genAI model from scratch, not using someone else’s model [which might in theory be OK] without [having to] retrain or fine-tuning someone else’s model... ['well'] just really from scratch."
"Anyway, here’s some links to where people can file a complaint about the lobbying. Apparently this puts their nonprofit status in jeopardy."
If enough people do it, this will be more effective, more so if people who are based in the US do it.
Later in this series we'll show that the OSI lied. This puts the OSI in a really bad position. Lying to the IRS is more than just mischief. █