> This obsession with locking up model weights behind a gate-keeping application form and calling it open source is weird. I don't know who the high priests are trying to fool.

When they don't do it, people scream at them (see Galactica)

"Journalists" react like this:

> On November 15 Meta unveiled a new large language model called Galactica, designed to assist scientists. But instead of landing with the big bang Meta hoped for, Galactica has died with a whimper after three days of intense criticism. Yesterday the company took down the public demo that it had encouraged everyone to try out.

> Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. There is a large body of research that highlights the flaws of this technology, including its tendencies to reproduce prejudice and assert falsehoods as facts.

> However, Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take it seriously.

Yann LeCunn confirmed this: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1631185701864865792

I wonder if they just leaked it onto 4chan themselves, lol.