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> It would be disingenuous framing because the argument against copyright stems from a belief that information should be free. Meta does not do things in this s
by AnthonyMouse 6mo ago
> It would be disingenuous framing because the argument against copyright stems from a belief that information should be free. Meta does not do things in this spirit.
Don't they? They release the llama model weights, they do things like this:
https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Open_Rack/SpecsAndDesigns https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Open_Rack/SpecsAndDesigns
They also make significant contributions to Linux and are the originators of popular open source projects like zstd and React.
They make their money from selling ads, not selling licenses.
- xigoi 6mo agoThey only released the weights because someone leaked them.
- AnthonyMouse 6mo agoSomeone leaked the llama 1 weights before they were released. That doesn't explain why they would release the subsequent versions except that they wanted to.