retiolus@lemmy.cat to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhy do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question.message-squaremessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1361arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1353arrow-down1message-squareWhy do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question.retiolus@lemmy.cat to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square68fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 year agoI thought we were talking about the word “open”. They don’t call themselves OpenSourceAI. Not that I agree with them using the word “open” in their name, but it doesn’t seem as unjustified as you’re making it out to be.
minus-squareNighed@sffa.communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoAux explained the reasoning though, and it sounds like it has kinda works given that there are (I believe) a number of alternative LLMs. I do agree it is somewhat misleading though.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·1 year agoI would posit that most of the open source efforts are not based on OpenAI initiatives. Hell, most of it was ripped from LLaMA. It’s why Facebook opened LLaMA2.
minus-squareNABDad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoThe post’s question was why do these companies use ‘open’ in their names. So, we aren’t actually talking about open in the case of open-source. We’re actually talking about why the companies have ‘open’ in their names.
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I thought we were talking about the word “open”. They don’t call themselves OpenSourceAI.
Not that I agree with them using the word “open” in their name, but it doesn’t seem as unjustified as you’re making it out to be.
Aux explained the reasoning though, and it sounds like it has kinda works given that there are (I believe) a number of alternative LLMs.
I do agree it is somewhat misleading though.
I would posit that most of the open source efforts are not based on OpenAI initiatives. Hell, most of it was ripped from LLaMA.
It’s why Facebook opened LLaMA2.
The post’s question was why do these companies use ‘open’ in their names. So, we aren’t actually talking about open in the case of open-source. We’re actually talking about why the companies have ‘open’ in their names.