Office space meme:

“If y’all could stop calling an LLM “open source” just because they published the weights… that would be great.”

      • Fushuan [he/him]English
        1•3 months ago

        The training data is NOT right there. If I can’t reproduce the results with the given data, the model is NOT open source.

    • PennomiEnglish
      10•3 months ago

      No, but I do call a CC licensed png file open source even if the author didn’t share the original layered Photoshop file.

      Model weights are data, not code.

      • @[email protected]
        16•3 months ago

        You’d be wrong. Open source has a commonly accepted definition and a CC licensed PNG does not fall under it. It’s copyleft, yes, but not open source.

        I do agree that model weights are data and can be given a license, including CC0. There might be some argument about how one can assign a license to weights derived from copyrighted works, but I won’t get into that right now. I wouldn’t call even the most liberally licensed model weights open-source though.

        • PennomiEnglish
          3•3 months ago

          Fair enough, it’s not source code, so open source doesn’t apply.