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by convexstrictly 1112 days ago
Yann LeCun: "No. But it's not because we don't want to. It's because of complicated legal issues."

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1651782621540524032

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Complicated legal issues of having the cake and eating it too.
And also the potential, unprecedented legal issues that accompany releasing and defending a free/open model. The brownie points they'd receive aren't worth it, at least yet.
GPT2 was released open. It’s been years. Microsoft’s CELA has vetted it. If they are thumbs up, I don’t see why others would be averse. Unless it’s not the reason. Methinks it isn’t.