Denis Warburton
Thought Experiment:
A question that may be critical for the Open Source movement going forward: What meaningfully differentiates it from the LLM industry?
The framing here isn’t necessarily in terms of business practices (monetization), but in terms of knowledge acquisition, generation, and dissemination.
There is an argument to be made that LLMs and Open Source are both parasitic, copying “what they find,” generating little new understanding, and liable to provide incorrect results.
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Denis Warburton
What early work with Closed Captioning and Open Source has taught me, is that someone will do initial work, which will then be copied ad infinitum, in some type of modern version of the game of telephone.
Literal DECADES will go by in which outdated and erroneous information (and by extension, implementations) continue to circulate, while the industry standards - which in the intervening decades became FREE TO DOWNLOAD - remain untouched, ignored, and unreferenced.
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