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0 pointsserf2mo ago0 comments

>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.

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Unless that corp is OSI, right?

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0 pointsserf2mo ago0 comments

>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.

Unless that corp is OSI, right?

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