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  • sure a model could theoretically be open source, but in this case that source would be 1) the software to train the model and 2) the training data, and good fucking luck getting either of those honestly.

    the AI sphere has co-opted the term “open source” because it sounds nice, what they actually mean is just “a free copy”, a free copy of deepseek is available for download.

    They seem to be able to fiddle a lot with the models, but in the end calling it open source is just blatantly not fucking true.





  • I think i have 3 big criteria:

    • Track record
    • Structuring things to pre-emptively keep themselves (and more importantly, those who might take over later) honest and aligned with the collective good
    • Good people involved and ideally in charge of the project

    Other people have mentioned things like venture capital and that’s certainly something to bear in mind (arguably part of the structure), but there are projects like Matrix where that feels quite marginal to me, the aforementioned aspects more than make up for it.
    Like when the main figurehead of the project goes on stage and nerds out about the code, that’s a pretty fucking good sign in my book.








  • i’d more say it’s just that there’s always some other guy who goes “yeah well they twisted the tiger’s tail but… i haven’t twisted the tiger’s tail so maybe it’ll be different for me?”

    then fucking somehow the tiger only smacks him on the head while making a funny face, he finds this fucking hilarious and does it again, gets his friends to do it, and now you have a group of dudes ooking like chimps while getting progressively more concussed while everyone else watches on with weary expressions knowing that this is just going to be a thing some people do from now on…