--- title: EleutherAI's Thoughts on the EU AI Act | daily.dev description: EleutherAI, in partnership with Creative Commons, Hugging Face, GitHub, LAION, and Open Future, has published a position paper on the EU AI Act, arguing that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/eleutherai-s-thoughts-on-the-eu-ai-act-pqtt9itje twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EleutherAI's Thoughts on the EU AI Act | daily.dev og:description: EleutherAI, in partnership with Creative Commons, Hugging Face, GitHub, LAION, and Open Future, has published a position paper on the EU AI Act, arguing that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/eleutherai-s-thoughts-on-the-eu-ai-act-pqtt9itje og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pqTT9Itje.png og:image:alt: EleutherAI's Thoughts on the EU AI Act og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EleutherAI's Thoughts on the EU AI Act **[EleutherAI](https://daily.dev/sources/eleutherai)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary EleutherAI, in partnership with Creative Commons, Hugging Face, GitHub, LAION, and Open Future, has published a position paper on the EU AI Act, arguing that the current parliamentary text places disproportionate burdens on non-profit, open source, and independent AI researchers. Key concerns include treating thousands of model checkpoints (like those from the Pythia project) as individually regulated models, and requiring energy/environmental disclosures that cloud-dependent researchers cannot access. Their five recommendations focus on clearer definitions, exemptions for open source repositories, practical R&D exceptions, and proportional requirements for foundation models. EleutherAI also commits to publicly documenting all compliance costs to inform future regulatory frameworks worldwide. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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