[rcMgD2BwE72F]

It isn't that someone was hurt. We have one private entity gaining power by centralizing knowledge (which they never contributed to) and making people pay for regurgitating the distilled knowledge, for profit.

Few entities can do that (I can't).

Most people are forced to work for companies that sell their work to the higher bidder (which are the very entities mentioned above), or ask them to use AI (under the condition that such work is accessible to the AI entities).

It's obviously a vicious circle, if people can't oppose their work to be ingested and repackaged by a few AI giants.

[andybak]

Are you talking about Meta? They released the model. It's free to use.

[satvikpendem]

Then you should be in support of OSS models over private entity ones like OpenAI's.

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

Like supporting Android Open Source Project… until Google decides to move the critical parts into Google Play Services? I run GrapheneOS (love it) but almost no banks will allow non-Google-sponsored Android ROMs and variants to do NFC transactions because… the AOSP is designed to miss what Google actually needs.

Idem with ML Kit loaded by Play Services, which makes Android apps fail in many cases.

And I'm not talking about biases introduced by private entities that open source their models but pursue their own goals (e.g geopolitical).

As long as AI is designed and led by huuge private entities, you'll have a hard time benefiting from it without supporting the entities' very own goals.

[satvikpendem]

Something is better than nothing, better to have AOSP than to have a fully closed-source OS like iOS.