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Re:The arguments against open source AI are bad by TurdF3rguson on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:11PM (#49028110)
Well I don't see how it even could be open source, since the source is distilling closed weights models, lol.

Also, who cares about having the source? Are you going to tweak it + spend a billion dollars training to get slightly different weights? Who would do that?

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Re:The arguments against open source AI are bad by _carbyau_ on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:13AM (#49031165)
Analysing the source can provide information about the model without ever running it. Does it have an inbuilt aim/censorship/bias/certain-capabilities?
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Re:The arguments against open source AI are bad by TurdF3rguson on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:07AM (#49031401)
There's a much easier way to get that information though. Just ask it some questions. Would you rather do that or analyze TBs of training data?
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