This obsession with locking up model weights behind a gate-keeping application form and calling it open source is weird. I don't know who the high priests are trying to fool.
If your model is really that good, unleash it into the open so that others can truly evaluate it-warts and all-and help improve it by identifying the flaws.
> This obsession with locking up model weights behind a gate-keeping application form and calling it open source is weird. I don't know who the high priests are trying to fool.
When they don't do it, people scream at them (see Galactica)
"Journalists" react like this:
> On November 15 Meta unveiled a new large language model called Galactica, designed to assist scientists. But instead of landing with the big bang Meta hoped for, Galactica has died with a whimper after three days of intense criticism. Yesterday the company took down the public demo that it had encouraged everyone to try out.
> Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. There is a large body of research that highlights the flaws of this technology, including its tendencies to reproduce prejudice and assert falsehoods as facts.
> However, Meta and other companies working on large language models, including Google, have failed to take it seriously.
If your model is really that good, unleash it into the open so that others can truly evaluate it-warts and all-and help improve it by identifying the flaws.