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May 18-20, 2026
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MOT: A Tool To Fight Open-washing in AI - Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
Many models referred to as "open source" are distributed under restrictive licenses and fail to include the necessary information to actually qualify as open source. Just because a model is on HuggingFace does not mean it is open source.

Several attempts have been made to provide a definition of what "open source AI" ought to be but we now have a tool that can help: the Model Openness Tool (MOT).

The MOT was developed by the Generative AI Commons as an implementation of the Model Openness Framework (MOF) to provide model producers and consumers with a practical way to assess how open a model really is. This session will introduce attendees to the MOT and include a demo showing how it can be used along with Hugging Face and GitHub to provide greater understanding of which models are really open.
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Arnaud Le Hors

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Arnaud Le Hors is Senior Technical Staff Member of Open Technologies at IBM. He has been working on standards and open source for over 30 years. Arnaud was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer of open source with the release of libXpm in... Read More →
MOT OSS Summit Minneapolis 2026 pdf
Monday May 18, 2026 11:20am - 12:00pm CDT
211A+B (Level Two)
  Open AI & Data
  • Audience Experience Level Beginner
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