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In the off chance than anyone cares what I think on this topic: (1) the open-source software movement has been enormously beneficial to socity (2) open-weight (& better, open-data) LLMs will be essential for understanding this technology & for it to be beneficial to society.
Exactly! This is what all these heavily politicized, self-serving AI takes that are emerging against open-source AI completely dismiss. I concede that business dynamics change and that uncertainty is uncomfortable, but if you consider what the history of open-source has been, the benefits are clear for scientific progress and humanity.
In the off chance than anyone cares what I think on this topic: (1) the open-source software movement has been enormously beneficial to socity (2) open-weight (& better, open-data) LLMs will be essential for understanding this technology & for it to be beneficial to society.