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A personal bugbear is the AI fascination with calling themselves open source, virtue signalling I guess. Open weights is exactly right. Source code and arguably
by Morphiak 2y ago
A personal bugbear is the AI fascination with calling themselves open source, virtue signalling I guess. Open weights is exactly right. Source code and arguably more important datasets are both required to replicate the work, which is more in the spirit of open source (and science). I think Meta is especially egregious here, given their history.
Never underestimate the value of getting hordes of unpaid workers to refine your product. (See also React, others)
- andybak 2y ago> virtue signalling I'd prefer "false advertising" - it's more direct and without the culture war baggage.
- seanw444 2y ago"Open source" is perceived as a virtue, and their claim is false. Thus false virtue claim. Or... virtue signaling.
- HPsquared 2y agoIndeed. The data is the main "information source" from which the model is trained.