# Open Source Developers Guide to the EU AI Act

DevFeed: [Open Source Developers Guide to the EU AI Act](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/open-source-developers-guide-to-the-eu-ai-act-7187.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/eu-ai-act-for-oss-developers>)

Author: Bruna Trevelin; Lucie-Aimée Kaffee; Yacine Jernite

Published: 2024-12-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Responsibility & Safety](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/responsibility-safety.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [watermarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/watermarking.md>), [dataset](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dataset.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [critical-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/critical-infrastructure.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [ethics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethics.md>), [eu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/eu.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>), [responsible-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/responsible-ai.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [watermarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/watermarking.md>)

## AI overview

A guide for open source developers on how the EU AI Act may apply to AI systems and models. It explains that obligations vary by model type, release context, role, and risk level, and highlights documentation, model and dataset information, deployment disclosures, copyright, privacy, opt-out mechanisms, and personal-data redaction.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.