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If you're talking about scientific gatekeeping like pre-publication peer review, the gatekeeping was never really the root problem. If researchers have great p
by civilized 4y ago
If you're talking about scientific gatekeeping like pre-publication peer review, the gatekeeping was never really the root problem.
If researchers have great products or findings to show off, it's easier than ever to simply publish them somewhere online and let impressed audiences spread the word. Gatekeepers have been irrelevant to truly great science for a long time.
It's mediocre science that needs gatekeepers to distinguish it from not-even-mediocre, truly substandard research.
- theptip 4y agoThe gatekeeping GP is referring to is OpenAPI keeping DALL-E 2 behind an invite-only API, with weights unpublished, vs. Stable Diffusion publishing the whole model for anyone to download and use.
- benreesman 4y agoIn fairness OpenAI aren’t the only ones to use fairly thin logic to avoid saying “this is about money”. Everybody was doing that until roughly, now. They’re just the only ones calling themselves “OpenAI”.