alt Hacker NewsI was wondering the same thing, e.g. if it takes tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to train and keep a model up-to-date, how can an open source one compete with that?
I was wondering the same thing, e.g. if it takes tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to train and keep a model up-to-date, how can an open source one compete with that?
Less than a billion of dollars to become the arbiter of truth probably sounds like a great deal to the well off dictatorial powers of the world. So long as models can be trained to have a bias (and it's hard to see that going away) I'd be pretty surprised if they stop being released for free.
Which definitely has some questionable implications... but just like with advertising it's not like paying makes the incentives for the people capable of training models to put their thumbs on the scales go away.