Add AI and open-source quote, format, typos, refine

Author: wenzeslaus

lectures/open-science-for-grand-challenges.html

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ <h3>Learning Objectives</h3>
 <section>
     <h3>Vaclav (Vashek) Petras</h3>
     <ul>
-        <li>Center: Director o Technology
+        <li>Center: Director of Technology
         <li>GRASS: Core Development Team, Project Steering Committee
         <li>OSGeo: Charter Member</li>
     </ul>
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ <h3>What Open Means</h3>
                     that preserve provenance and openness.
                     <small>[as officially summed up]</small>
             </ul>
-        <li>More than one term in use: <em>open, free, libre</em>
+        <li>More than one term in use: <em>open, free, libre, FOSS, FLOSS</em>
         <li>Free Cultural Works
         <li>The Open Source Definition
         <li>The Open Source AI Definition
@@ -169,15 +169,18 @@ <h3>What Open Means</h3>
 <section>
 <h3>Four Freedoms in the OSI Open Source AI Definition</h3>
 
-An Open Source AI is an AI system made available under terms and in a way that grant the freedoms to:
+<small>
+    An Open Source AI is an AI system made available under terms and in a way that grant the freedoms to:
+</small>
 <ul>
     <li><b>Use</b> the system for any purpose and without having to ask for permission.</li>
     <li><b>Study</b> how the system works and inspect its components.</li>
     <li><b>Modify</b> the system for any purpose, including to change its output.</li>
     <li><b>Share</b> the system for others to use with or without modifications, for any purpose.</li>
 </ul>
 <small>
-These freedoms apply both to a fully functional system and to discrete elements of a system. A precondition to exercising these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications to the system.
+    These freedoms apply both to a fully functional system and to discrete elements of a system.
+    A precondition to exercising these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications to the system.
 </small>
 
 <small>
@@ -192,20 +195,32 @@ <h3>Four Freedoms in the OSI Open Source AI Definition</h3>
 <section>
     <h3>Four Freedoms in the GNU Philosophy</h3>
 
-A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:
+    <small>
+        A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:
+    </small>
 
-<ul>
-    <li>The freedom to <b>run</b> the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).</li>
-    <li>The freedom to <b>study</b> how the program works, and <b>change</b> it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.</li>
-    <li>The freedom to <b>redistribute</b> copies so you can help others (freedom 2).</li>
-    <li>The freedom to <b>distribute</b> copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.</li>
-</ul>
+    <ul>
+        <li>The freedom to <b>run</b> the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).</li>
+        <li>
+            The freedom to <b>study</b> how the program works, and <b>change</b> it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).
+            <small>
+                Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
+            </small>
+        </li>
+        <li>The freedom to <b>redistribute</b> copies so you can help others (freedom 2).</li>
+        <li>
+            The freedom to <b>distribute</b> copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3).
+            <small>
+                By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
+            </small>
+        </li>
+    </ul>
 
-<small>
-    What is Free Software? by <em>GNU</em> Operating System
-    supported by the <em>Free Software Foundation</em>,
-    generalized in <em>Free Cultural Works</em> (<a href="https://freedomdefined.org/">freedomdefined.org</a>)
-</small>
+    <small>
+        What is Free Software? by <em>GNU</em> Operating System
+        supported by the <em>Free Software Foundation</em>,
+        generalized in <em>Free Cultural Works</em> (<a href="https://freedomdefined.org/">freedomdefined.org</a>)
+    </small>
 
 <br>
 
@@ -249,7 +264,6 @@ <h3>Licensing</h3>
         Do you read “terms and conditions”?
         Have you ever read any “terms and conditions” or end user license agreement (EULA)?
         What about an open source software license?
-        <small>(Read <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#WhatlicensedoesGDALOGRuse">license of GDAL</a> right now! It's less than 170 words.)</small>
     </small>
 
 </section>
@@ -567,7 +581,7 @@ <h3>Open Science Publication: Software Platform</h3>
 
 
 <section>
-    <h2>Challenges of Open Science</h2>
+    <h2>Challenges</h2>
 </section>
 
 
@@ -690,6 +704,28 @@ <h3>Copyright, Licensing, and GenAI</h3>
 </section>
 
 
+<section>
+    <h3>GenAI and Open Source Infrastructure</h3>
+    <blockquote>
+        Once AI training sets subsume the collective work of decades of open collaboration,
+        the global commons idea, substantiated into repos and code all over the world,
+        risks becoming a nonrenewable resource, mined and never replenished.
+        <small>
+            &hellip;
+            What makes this moment especially tragic is that the very infrastructure enabling generative AI was born from the commons it now consumes.
+            Free and open source software built the Internet&hellip;
+            Every cloud provider, every hyperscale data center, every LLM pipeline sits on a foundation of FOSS.
+        </small>
+        <small>
+            <br>
+            &mdash; Sean O'Brien, founder of the Yale Privacy Lab at Yale Law School in
+            <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-open-source-may-not-survive-the-rise-of-generative-ai/">Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI</a>
+            by David Gewirtz. ZDNET. Oct. 24, 2025. Accessed 2025-10-27.
+        </small>
+    </blockquote>
+</section>
+
+
 <section>
     <h3>Private Data</h3>
 
@@ -1051,6 +1087,7 @@ <h3>Internal Reasons for Open Science</h3>
 </section>
 
 
+<!--
 <section>
 <h3>References</h3>
 
@@ -1096,6 +1133,7 @@ <h3>References</h3>
 </small>
 
 </section>
+-->
 
 
 <section>
@@ -1104,12 +1142,11 @@ <h3>Resolution for Class Debate</h3>
     <blockquote>
         A scientific publication needs to consist of text, data, source code, computational software environment, and reviews
         which are all openly licensed, in open formats, checked during the submission process, and
-        publicly available without any delay after publication.
+        publicly available without any delay at the time of publication.
     </blockquote>
 
     <small class="glow">
         Consider:
-        Funding, workload, scooping, AI/GenAI/LLMs, tax payers, industry funding agencies, &hellip;
+        Funding, workload, scooping, AI/GenAI/LLMs, tax payers, industry, missions of funding agencies, &hellip;
     </small>
-
 </section>