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> If OpenAI leadership views it as a part of their charter to release their weights, research, etc. as open source, Isn't it the completely the opposite of tha

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Isn't it the completely the opposite of that, though? No, its more complicated, which is why they were initially actually open, then became closed as their assessment of the circumstances changed; their own inability to act as gatekeeper, which would go away with a split with Microsoft where Microsoft had unrestricted rights and was not in practice coordinating with them, could well sufficiently change the circumstances to change their stance, without any inconsistency in reasoning (not that reasoning itself can legitimately evolve, too.) In simple terms, it plausible that they might see the broad preference as: good gatekeeper of top of the line AI > open models > bad gatekeeper of top of the line AI and also see Microsoft, after the current kerfuffle, as a bad gatekeeper.