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I'm absolutely in favor of the idea of open source AI, providing libre/free/open source code, libre/free/open source data and providing all other relevant digit
by abetusk 4y ago
I'm absolutely in favor of the idea of open source AI, providing libre/free/open source code, libre/free/open source data and providing all other relevant digital artifacts under a libre/free license but I'm nervous about believing in some other organization that claims to be open but then rescinding their offer.
I think this was precisely OpenAI's charter when it started [0] and now they've positioned themselves as paternalistic protectors, claiming to have peoples best interest at heart when limiting access the tools they've created. Even hugging face has weird licensing for many (most?) of their models [1].
My apologies, but I don't trust LAION. I guess I would trust it more if they talked about which licenses they specifically would support, which they wouldn't and what the repercussions of violating their charter would be.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160220093339/https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160220093339/https://openai.co...
[1] https://huggingface.co/models?sort=downloads https://huggingface.co/models?sort=downloads
- mark_l_watson 4y agoI mostly use the OpenAI APIs out of some laziness on my part: super easy to integrate with my code, inexpensive, large 3rd party dev community. All that said, I love what Hugging Face is doing with open models and software. I made a note to check out their licensing however, based in your comment.