Bringing Open Source Principles to AI Data through Croissant | by Thomas Carey-Wilson | Canvas | Nov, 2024 | Medium

"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industry and government alike. As crucial as the risks it presents are, embracing more responsible openness has the potential to unlock its potential for fostering freedom, transparency, and collaboration. The OSI Open Source AI Definition brings these core principles to AI systems. To our delight, central to this mission is the availability and standardisation of AI data, in addition to models and weights. This is where MLCommons’ Croissant comes into play. Croissant is a metadata standard created to make machine-learning datasets easier to use. It changes the way we work with these datasets to make them more accessible, understandable, and shareable."