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> Publishing open weights gives me more confidence in the model Why? It's not like you can audit weights like you can with code. > what if they triple the pri
by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
> Publishing open weights gives me more confidence in the model
Why? It's not like you can audit weights like you can with code.
> what if they triple the price, nerf it, etc.?
What if an open weights infra provider does that? What's the difference?
- alightsoul 3mo agoyou keep the model. it's never deprecated. with closed ai, you are forced into a new more expensive model every few months. if an open model infra provider does that, you simply switch to another one. it's not in their interest to do that.
- TurdF3rguson 3mo agoThat's not really true though, providers are deprecating models and I have at least 10 emails to prove it.
- alightsoul 3mo agoNothing stops you from downloading the model and hosting it on a cloud virtual machine
- TurdF3rguson 3mo agoCommon sense does, but other than that I suppose you're right.
- trollbridge 3mo agoA provider deprecating a model doesn't mean the .gguf file disappears from my computer.
- AgentMasterRace 3mo agohell yeha bro, I still rock qwen 0.1
- kzrdude 3mo agoWhen the weights are publically available (and open to use), then there's a free market for hosting that model at least. That's not independence for me, but it's lack of vendor lock-in. For some of the open models, there's a list of 20-30 providers of the same model on openrouter for example, as an example of the supply.
- trollbridge 3mo agoBecause I can run Qwen 3.6 or DeepSeek V4 until the end of time if I want to? The model is on HuggingFace; anyone can download it. I have Qwen and Gemma on my laptop right now if I want to use them, even if I decide to go be a hermit who never interacts with the outside world again.
- TurdF3rguson 3mo agoI will concede a use case for hermits.
- chronogram 3mo agoOr travel. Even in the developed world you can be without internet or slow internet. I have Gemma 4 E4B on my phone that can process audio, image, and text if I have need to.
- TurdF3rguson 3mo agoOk but we're talking about the concern that a provider can 3x or nerf a model. I'm pointing out that open weights providers can do that too, and your only recourse is to run it yourself at way more than 3x the price.
- CuriouslyC 3mo agoYou might not be able to audit the weights, but there are people with the skill set to do it. If providers decide to jack the price, open weights lets you find a new provider without losing your fine tunes and having to re-do workflows, etc like you would if you switched off a frontier lab model.