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Morphiak | 1 year ago

A personal bugbear is the AI fascination with calling themselves open source, virtue signalling I guess. Open weights is exactly right. Source code and arguably more important datasets are both required to replicate the work, which is more in the spirit of open source (and science). I think Meta is especially egregious here, given their history.

Never underestimate the value of getting hordes of unpaid workers to refine your product. (See also React, others)

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andybak|1 year ago

> virtue signalling

I'd prefer "false advertising" - it's more direct and without the culture war baggage.

seanw444|1 year ago

"Open source" is perceived as a virtue, and their claim is false. Thus false virtue claim. Or... virtue signaling.

HPsquared|1 year ago

Indeed. The data is the main "information source" from which the model is trained.