Office space meme:

“If y’all could stop calling an LLM “open source” just because they published the weights… that would be great.”

  • Nonononoki@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Would an open-source Windows installer make it open-source? After all, you can replace its .dll files and modify the registry. I guess PrismLauncher also makes Minecraft open-source, you can replace the textures there as well.

    • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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      2 days ago

      If the installer is open source, then that part is open source. It’s maybe not as useful, because it relies on proprietary software to work. On the other hand, so does emulators like Dolphin.

      Windows is not open source just because it’s possible to change dll files. Minecraft is not open source just because it’s possible to modify its textures.

      Model weights isn’t the equivalent to a proprietary DLL or GameCube ROM. Anyone is free to modify and distribute the model weights however they like - and people are already doing it. Soon enough we will see variations of the model without the Chinese censor for example.