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by Capricorn2481
8 days ago
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> But I'd argue the average person only really cares about the legal aspects of duplication (and not their ability to modify things) both when it comes to open source software and open weight LLMs. The average person does not know the term "open source" to begin with, and is 100% not going to run an open source weight model on their computer. If they are, they will call them "free" models. I think the distinction is only going to enter the periphery of nerds. |
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I agree that the fully average person isn't going to call them "open source models" (or really anything more specific than "AI") but policy makers and the media having this discussion will call them "open source models". And they will be technically incorrect, but it won't matter, the name will stick.
And yeah, it will be quite a long time before average people run open weight models on their computer, but I think a significant amount of them will run hosted open weight models in the nearish future. It won't matter to them that these models are open weight, it will only matter to them that they cost less than Claude or GPT while doing basically the same stuff just about as well.