Open-source technologies drive competition, innovation, and consumer protection. These innovations help shape many foundational architectures widely adopted by governments, academic institutions, and companies. Preserving open-source AI is crucial to creating new valuable technologies that protect our national economic and security interests.
Broad-based and reactionary regulations create a difficult environment for innovators. Policymakers must keep their focus on vigorously enforcing existing laws against malicious AI applications, including antitrust, civil rights, liability, and consumer protection statutes, not how AI is built.
Honor established judicial precedents on fair use, and avoid introducing new liability for generative AI tools. Allowing AI platforms to use public data for model training is well within established fair use principles and vital to advancing scientific progress and innovation.