alt Hacker NewsI really don't like these companies taking open weight models and then gatekeeping the results of their minor contributions.
I hope that the producers of the actual open models will modify their licenses to ensure that this practice becomes a thing of the past.
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kadoban • today at 1:17 AM
Hm? I see a model download link to hf.
These people building on or tweaking open models is _great_, it should be encouraged. There's a lot of room to spend some effort improving models in various ways that the original creators didn't have time for.
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lp92 • today at 1:09 AM
That will just make people less likely to use open models for any commercial work.
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deadbabe • today at 1:23 AM
Get used to it. In the AI era, gatekeeping is how you build value.
Yeah agreed, I hope the b2b marketplace will automatically make these products redundant if they are mainly targeted at engineers. Unless they offer value somehow else.
I don’t think a license change would have a net positive effect, they will just add their tiny wrapper around another permissive model