EU AI Act: Open Models, Governance, and Deployment Reality

The EU AI Act regulates how AI systems are placed on the market and used, with escalating obligations for high‑risk categories, transparency for certain general‑purpose and consumer‑facing cases, and governance expectations that land on deployers as well as providers. Open‑source weights or code do not automatically exempt a real‑world deployment from duties once the system is part of a product or business process.

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GDPR and Open Source: What a Migration Must Demonstrate

The GDPR does not mandate open source. It mandates accountability: lawful basis, purpose limitation, data minimisation, security of processing, subprocessors, transfers, breach notification, and the rights of data subjects. When you migrate workloads to open‑source platforms or self‑hosted stacks, supervisors still ask one question: can you show how controls are implemented and who is responsible?

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Why You Need to Consider Moving to Open Source

Proprietary stacks are not “bad,” but they concentrate risk. When critical workloads, encryption keys, audit logs, and AI inference paths all depend on opaque roadmaps and a single commercial trajectory, you inherit someone else’s priorities: price changes, feature deprecation, regional product splits, and incident timelines you do not control.

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