While it’s still somewhat of a blackbox, some definitions of “open source AI” are better than others
The OSI one is decent
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taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoOpen source is much less useful with AI though since you can neither inspect how it works exactly nor modify that one thing that bothers you about the current behavior.
otter@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s increasingly untrue as we build tools to inspect and modify those weights. Nearly every open model has homegrown LoRA support, and most of them have abliteration code that lets you erase undesirable behaviors.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 days ago
And if we're really talking about "open-source" and not just "open-weight", the scientific papers, datasets and tooling are going to help democratize the technology and even out the playing field to a degree.