Imagine how far community might have pushed if 2 past versions of 'morally superior' Anthropic and 'completely Open AI' open sourced their models for the community to build on top of them
Should as in "would it be nice?" - yeah. Should as in they have to? No.
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of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so
You can do pretty much anything you want with an MIT license.
There is no obligation to do that. I think the landscape would be very different now if one of the big labs had released an earlier “frontier” model under copyleft that requires sharing fine tunes. I hope it still happens.
Dario is convinced that will create SkyNet, and so no, it will never happen. Only the blessed members of the True Church Of Effective Altruism can approach the Ark of the Covenant. The unwashed cannot be trusted.
It's just the 2020s version of Ayn Rand's "Objectivism." Distillation of exploitative personality traits covered over in sophistry and philosophical excuses. Lets people be dickheads and be smugly superior about it at the same time.