Open Source AI Is the Path Forward

Re:Open Source AI Is the Path Forward by yesco on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @01:14PM (#41048475)

Does it really matter? Attributing goodwill to a company is like attributing goodwill to a spider that happens to clean up the bugs in your basement. Sure if they had the ability to, I'm confident Meta would try something like that, but they obviously don't, and will not for the foreseeable future.

I have faith they will continue to do what's in their best interests and if their best interests happen to align with mine, then I will support that. Just like how I don't bother killing the spider in my basement because it helps clean up the other bugs.

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Re:Open Source AI Is the Path Forward by mupuff1234 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:06PM (#41049003)

But you also know that the spider has been laying eggs so you better have an extermination plan ready.

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Re:Open Source AI Is the Path Forward by whitepaint on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @05:46PM (#41051294)

Everyone is aware of that. No one thinks Facebook or Mark are some saint entities. But while the spider is doing some good deeds why not just go "yeah! go spider!". Once it becomes an asshole, we will kill it. People are not dumb.

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Re:Open Source AI Is the Path Forward by mupuff1234 on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:29PM (#41052489)

It's not even truly open source, they set a user limit.

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Re:Open Source AI Is the Path Forward by xvector on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @01:00AM (#41053752)

I'm not particularly concerned about the user limit. The companies for which those limits will matter are so large that they should consider contributing back to humanity by developing their own SOTA foundation models.

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