It’s beyond absurd to build a model with public, user-created data, gathered and released for free by a nonprofit, and then claim “uh, the model’s too big and u

It’s beyond absurd to build a model with public, user-created data, gathered and released for free by a nonprofit, and then claim “uh, the model’s too big and unwieldy, so we have to keep things under lock and key.” I don’t doubt that they’ll profit handsomely from this approach, but it’s the height of cynicism to engage in this kind of stuff and their statements around the practice should be taken in kind.