Re:Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size...
by lmm on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:42PM
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> So if I take a photo of a pretty sunset, release it under MIT license, you'd say it's "not open source" unless I give you the sun and the atmosphere themselves?
You've gotta give me the stuff you used to make it, the stuff you'd want to have if you wanted to recreate a slightly different version of the photo ("in the preferred form for making modifications", as the GPL says). If you just snapped a photo of whatever you saw with whatever camera was in your pocket, then there's nothing else to publish. But if you figured out a timetable of when you should stand where with what kind of lens, then making your photo open-source would mean publishing that timetable.
> These models are perfectly valid things in their own right; the can be fine-tuned or used as parts of other things.
If the original creator can edit them, and you can't, then that's not open-source; fine-tuning is a help but someone who can only fine-tune is still a second-class user compared to the original developer. The whole point of open source is to put you on an equal footing with the original developer (in particular, to make sure that you can fix bugs by yourself and are never stuck waiting for them to release an update that you need).
You've gotta give me the stuff you used to make it, the stuff you'd want to have if you wanted to recreate a slightly different version of the photo ("in the preferred form for making modifications", as the GPL says). If you just snapped a photo of whatever you saw with whatever camera was in your pocket, then there's nothing else to publish. But if you figured out a timetable of when you should stand where with what kind of lens, then making your photo open-source would mean publishing that timetable.
> These models are perfectly valid things in their own right; the can be fine-tuned or used as parts of other things.
If the original creator can edit them, and you can't, then that's not open-source; fine-tuning is a help but someone who can only fine-tune is still a second-class user compared to the original developer. The whole point of open source is to put you on an equal footing with the original developer (in particular, to make sure that you can fix bugs by yourself and are never stuck waiting for them to release an update that you need).