Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:
"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit
https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/
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(I know there are niche attempts that work even worse than all the other models)
@tante Ah, so you're counting https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus in "nice attempt, but ..." ?
@tante Fair enough.
I can see from their white paper that whilst they're being really very transparent... any duplication would still need to do all the scraping and cleaning of data themselves.
But, *given* that proviso, it does seem like one of, if not the, most open attempt. It's a hard problem, but they've certainly tried to be very ethical about it.
@tante Open Source LLMs do not exist. I refuse to limit the definition of "AI" to only GenAI LLM Nonsense. And on the ML side you have a lot of OSS
