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Everything is open source if you're skilled with Ghidra. We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs?
by immibis 10mo ago
Everything is open source if you're skilled with Ghidra.
We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs?
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- KK7NIL 10mo ago> We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Who's "we"? There's been quite a lot of pushback on this naming scheme from the OSS community, with many preferring the term "open weights".
- serf 10mo ago>We call AI models "open source" if you can download the binary and not the source. Why not programs? the weights of a model aren't equivalent to the binary output of source code, no matter how you try to stretch the metaphor. >why not because we aren't beholden to change all definitions and concepts because some guy at some corp said so.
- immibis 10mo agoUnless that corp is OSI, right?
- heavyset_go 10mo agoBinaries and AI models can be inscrutable. They're meant to be interpreted by machines. We want human readable, comprehensible, reproducible and maintainable sources at minimum when we say open source.
- dspillett 9mo agoNorth Korea is called a “democratic people's republic”. Just because one thing that really isn't <whatever> is called <whatever> by the people in coontrol of it, doesn't mean that it is or that incorrectly calling other things <whatever> is correct.