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Re:Meta under fire for 'polluting' open-source by janice1999 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:01PM (#41871439)
> the definition of open source up to this point was more for the software, the data, the art.

LLMs are software. Not releasing the data sets or training code is the same as "open sourcing" an application as an executable with some of its source code but not providing the proprietary/secret compiler required to actually compile it. It's useful, to a point, and keeps users dependent on the good will of Facebook.

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Re:Meta under fire for 'polluting' open-source by karmakaze on Saturday October 26, 2024 @02:24AM (#41952956)
A trained LLM is software the same way an opaque binary is software. To be truly 'soft' you need to be able to recreate or change it, i.e. have the 'source' in this case the means to recreate/train it.
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