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Binaries can do arbitrary things, like report home to a central server. Weights cannot.
by zamalek 2y ago
Binaries can do arbitrary things, like report home to a central server. Weights cannot.
- actualwitch 2y agoDepending on format, they might.
- microtonal 2y agoVirtually all models are now distributed as Safetensors/gguf/etc. (which are just metadata + data), not pickled Python classes. Many libraries also don't even load pickled checkpoints anymore unless you add an argument explicitly stating that you want to load an unsafe checkpoint.
- hiq 2y agoWhy is that relevant regarding the FOSS aspects of weights / binaries? If I run a binary within a VM and only consider its output and prevent any side-effect host, just like I could just consider the output of an LLM, my binary is still not any closer to being FOSS, is it?