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I would be totally willing to pay $50 per month to support an open source AI lab, rather to get open source models as byproducts of corporations.
by sanbor 4mo ago
I would be totally willing to pay $50 per month to support an open source AI lab, rather to get open source models as byproducts of corporations.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4mo agoWell, AI labs are spending hundreds of billions, so you're gonna need a lot of subscribers to compete...
- sanbor 4mo agoGood point. I currently choose to give money to Anthrophic rather than OpenAI because they align a tiny bit more with my values and the product is good. Perhaps releasing an open source model every year could be a differentiator from competitors, where enterprise and individuals choses the lab not because is the best model out there but because gives autonomy in case something happens to the organization providing the models.
- TaupeRanger 4mo agoFor now. Progress in hardware/model efficiency is one of the threats the big AI labs face, because if LLMs become commoditized they can’t make back the billions they spent.
- raincole 4mo agoI think OpenAI ruined the trust. How do you know this 'open source AI lab' won't somehow spin off a for-profit?
- killerstorm 4mo agoWe just need to make it on blockchain so it is immutable. <ducks>
- curioussquirrel 4mo ago[dead]
- impossiblefork 4mo agoCoups like that can happen due to organizations having a small number of board members that can decide to do as they like. Proper mass-membership organizations are possible though. Same rules as a public corporation, but one vote per members, and the yearly meeting decides the board members and approves important decisions or introduce motions that steer the organization. So the right way to do this would be to create something like the "Public LLM development club", some criteria on membership (after all entryism is a thing), some membership fee sufficient that there is money for a reasonable amount of work to be done and then one has to hope that people join.
- teddyh 4mo agoSo elections guarantee fair outcomes, you say…
- addandsubtract 4mo agoUnpopular opinion: a government funded and run lab, available to the public. The EU could make it happen.
- fullshark 4mo agoBecause they are supported by the Chinese government for the purpose of undermining US capital investments.
- RobotToaster 4mo agoThe new cold war is weird.
- throawayonthe 4mo agoafaik deepseek doesn't have any closed models and publish more code/data/papers than most.. could start using their api i guess? not a byproduct of the corporation