“The goal is to have everything open. Now, of course, there are some limitations,” Hajič said. “We want to have models of the highest quality possible, and based on the European copyright directive we can use anything we can get our hands on. Some of it cannot be redistributed, but some of it can be stored for future inspection.”
What this means is that the OpenEuroLLM project might have to keep some of the training data under wraps, but be made available to auditors upon request — as required for high-risk AI systems under the terms of the EU AI Act.