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Can AI even be open source? It's complicated
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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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Are the petabytes of training data included in the repo? No? Then how could it ever be called open source?
At best, some of the current AI can be called freeware.
If you're just including the trained AI itself, it's more like including a binary, rather than source.
You can't really modify Llama in a significant way, can you? You can't fork it and continue improving that fork.