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Re:OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models by robonerd on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:39PM (#31243820)
But they'll consider requests from government and industry.. both greater threats in the information war than any private individual.
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Re:OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models by IAmEveryone on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:57AM (#31245491)
Since “everyone” would include governments and industry as well, their restriction is guaranteed to not contain more bad actors than no restriction.
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Re:OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models by xxpor on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:45PM (#31243865)
Not from their perspective
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Re:OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models by robonerd on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:47PM (#31243885)
Of course. To somebody in Zuck's position, shoring up the power of the status quo is common sense.
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Re:OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models by alimov on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @02:42AM (#31245406)
I don’t know whether this is true and have no way of knowing this with any degree of certainty, but to me it seems unlikely that Mark had anything to do with this stipulation (requesting access). Although it’s not unimaginable.
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