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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We have plenty of alternatives like Mistral, Gemini, qwen, deepseek...

But none of them is fully open source that you know data they've been trained with, right? Maybe only K2 ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I thought deepseek was open source. Guess not

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Well, if openai open sources all their models, what value is there left that is unique to openai? Training data? But that is only valuable if they invent a better way to make it into an "AI".

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It grinds my gears that someone who can't be fucked with capitalization has that much money and power. I get that using the shift key occasionally is an inconvenience but we do it to help the readers. A conversation is give and take.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Like all techbros it is an affectation to cultivate a certain sort of appearance. A type of mad faux intellectualism.

You literally have to be a tryhard to do all lowecase on a phone, for example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

i've disabled auto caps on my phone :o

i generally type in all lower case anyways because it appears more casual, at least to me. it's not exactly a rule i follow, so it's never consistent, and i don't mind capitalizing abbreviations and names and such anyways.

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[–] [email protected] 178 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Can someone ELI5? He's admitting it was never truly open? Or they were wrong for thinking open was good at all?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's saying they're wrong for not currently being open.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (1 children)

OpenAI was started to be as open as possible, and to prevent the kinds of capitalism-driven Closed-AI development that they have now themselves become.

My personal opinion is that closed AI systems are only good if the owners are trustworthy. And in the long-run, no single owner can be trusted. There are risks with letting everyone copy and customize AI, however the worse danger is that the power gets too centralized with one single company.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

OpenAI was started to be as open as possible, and to prevent the kinds of capitalism-driven Closed-AI development that they have now themselves become.

No, that was what OpenAI said its goals originally were. They were lying. They always intended for it to become a capitalist venture. Anyone who listens to Tech Won’t Save Us or This Machine Kills or Team Human have known all along. Or anyone like me who’s been in the industry for thirty years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's really disappointing as a huge fan of sci-fi myself. I know we won't get flying cars and stuff anytime soon, but technology in general is super cool. Humans are really ingenious.

And these corporate troglodytes had to go and ruin a good thing. I hope their balls explode.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I too have been in the industry for many a decade and I heartily concur. I do have many colleagues though that also have been in for many years, and those are still dedicated believers. Maybe their critical thinking has been eaten away by all the lead in soldering tin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Can confirm, lead feasted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

That reminds me, I was temporarily blinded once from breathing in too much soldering fume.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Ah interesting - cheers for sharing!

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