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michaelsshawlast Friday at 7:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

We spread free software for multiple purposes, one of them being the free software ethos. People using that for training proprietary models is antithetical to such ideas.

It's also an interesting double standard, wherein if I were to steal OpenAI's models, no AI worshippers would have any issue condemning my action, but when a large company clearly violates the license terms of free software, you give them a pass.


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ronsorlast Friday at 7:28 AM

> I were to steal OpenAI's models, no AI worshippers would have any issue condemning my action

If GPT-5 were "open sourced", I don't think the vast majority of AI users would seriously object.

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anonym29last Friday at 9:01 AM

I can't speak for anyone else, but if you were to leak weights for OpenAI's frontier models, I'd offer to hug you and donate money to you.

Information wants to be free.