alt Hacker NewsOpenAI never open sourced anything relevant or in time. Internal email leaks they only cared to become billionaires.
Claude only talks about safety, but never released anything open source.
All this said I’m surprised China actually delivered so many open source alternatives. Which are decent.
Why westerns (which are supposed to be the good guys) didn’t release anything open source to help humanity ? And always claim they don’t release because of safety and then give the unlimited AI to military? Just bullshit.
Let’s all be honest and just say you only care about the money, and whomever pays you take.
They are businesses after all so their goal is to make money. But please don’t claim you want to save the world or help humans. You just want to get rich at others expenses. Which is totally fair. You do a good product and you sell.
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I mean, if you have a bunch of guns, it's not really helpful for humanity to dump them on the street, but it does bring up the question of what you're doing building guns in the first place.
> Claude only talks about safety, but never released anything open source.
im still working through this issue myself but hinton said releasing weights for frontier models was "crazy" because they can be retrained to do anything. i can see the alignment of corporate interest and safety converging on that point.
from the point of view of diminishing corporate power i do think it is essential to have open weights. if not that, then the companies should be publicly owned to avoid concentration of unaccountable power.
It is hard to understand why other ai companies are still providing models weights at this point
My guess is that they know they are not competitors so they make it cheaper or free to hinder the surge of a super competitor.