Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized"

Re:Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized" by troupo on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:02PM (#41584072)

I've had as a comment to a comment, but I'll repost it at the top level:

They use "open source" to whitewash their image.

Now ask yourself a question: where does Meta's data come from? Perhaps from their users' data? And they opted everyone in by default. And made the opt-out process as cumbersome as possible: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1794863603964891567.html And now complain that the EU is preventing them from "collecting rich cultural context" or something https://x.com/nickclegg/status/1834594456689066225

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Meta AI: "The Future of AI Is Open Source and Decentralized" by rkou on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:29PM (#41584400)

Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openwashing

> In 2012, Red Hat Inc. accused VMWare Inc. and Microsoft Corp. of openwashing in relation to their cloud products.[6] Red Hat claimed that VMWare and Microsoft were marketing their cloud products as open source, despite charging fees per machine using the cloud products.

Other companies are way more careful using "open source" in relation to their AI models. Meta now practically owns the term "Open Source AI" for whatever they take it to mean, might as well call it Meta AI and be done with it: https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-ope...

[ Parent | on HN ]