# Hugging Face — Open Source Developers Guide to the EU AI Act

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/eu-ai-act-for-oss-developers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1790-open-source-developers-guide-to-the-eu-ai-act

Hugging Face published a guide for open source developers about the EU AI Act, explaining its impact on AI systems and models, risk categories, and steps for compliance, including using Hugging Face tools.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/eu-ai-act-for-oss-developers:

> The EU AI Act, the world's first comprehensive legislation on artificial intelligence, has officially come into force, and it's set to impact the way we develop and use AI – including in the open source community. If you're an open source developer navigating this new landscape, you're probably wondering what this means for your projects. This guide breaks down key points of the regulation with a focus on open source development, offering a clear introduction to this legislation and directing you to tools that may help you prepare to comply with it.

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