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Am I the only one who finds this very sketchy? They had the whole license things, there's been some loud complaining by the HF CTO on social media that this mod

Am I the only one who finds this very sketchy? They had the whole license things, there's been some loud complaining by the HF CTO on social media that this model is not getting enough attention, and there are also press releases about how Falcon tops the "leaderboard": https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/20230529005045/uaes-falcon-40b-dominates-leaderboard-ranks-1-globally-in-latest-hugging-face-independent-verification-of-open-source-ai-models https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/2023052900504... I've never seen this kind of "strategy" with an ML model before. Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there... It could be a question of not being used to see blatantly commercial advertising in places we're used to being about software. Feels like we're moving more towards the bro-ification of AI.

throwaway290 3y ago
Probably PR to attract subsidies/investment. UAE might be throwing more money on tech/innovation branded projects than China.
jerpint 3y ago
maybe attention IS all you need
- version_five 3y ago
  I wish I'd thought of that. Seriously though, I think it's mostly the opposite. How much advertising did Georgi Gerganov do for ggml / llama.cpp and it's super popular. Maybe other people are just being more subtle, but I feel generally merit stands out on it's own and advertising is a poor substitute.
- lbotos 3y ago
  For the segment of HN that isn't up to speed on ML this is a double entendre from a famous ML paper: https://towardsdatascience.com/attention-is-all-you-need-discovering-the-transformer-paper-73e5ff5e0634 https://towardsdatascience.com/attention-is-all-you-need-dis...
Havoc 3y ago
Not sure I care to be honest. With an open license the community can now take this and roll with it. What PR noise they make is secondary to that in my mind.
- ralfn 3y ago
  Yeah. When companies do actually good things for PR/selfish reasons the society that rewards that with attention will thrive. Cynics logic is always a race to the moral bottom

throwaway290 3y ago

Probably PR to attract subsidies/investment. UAE might be throwing more money on tech/innovation branded projects than China.

jerpint 3y ago

maybe attention IS all you need

version_five 3y ago
I wish I'd thought of that. Seriously though, I think it's mostly the opposite. How much advertising did Georgi Gerganov do for ggml / llama.cpp and it's super popular. Maybe other people are just being more subtle, but I feel generally merit stands out on it's own and advertising is a poor substitute.
lbotos 3y ago
For the segment of HN that isn't up to speed on ML this is a double entendre from a famous ML paper: https://towardsdatascience.com/attention-is-all-you-need-discovering-the-transformer-paper-73e5ff5e0634 https://towardsdatascience.com/attention-is-all-you-need-dis...

Havoc 3y ago

Not sure I care to be honest. With an open license the community can now take this and roll with it. What PR noise they make is secondary to that in my mind.

ralfn 3y ago
Yeah. When companies do actually good things for PR/selfish reasons the society that rewards that with attention will thrive. Cynics logic is always a race to the moral bottom