I've been saying for a long time now that "open source AI" isn't really open source.
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I've been saying for a long time now that "open source AI" isn't really open source. We are being manipulated.
I'm glad to hear Meredith Whittaker is fully in agreement on this point.
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I've been saying for a long time now that "open source AI" isn't really open source. We are being manipulated.
I'm glad to hear Meredith Whittaker is fully in agreement on this point.
BTW, you owe it to yourself to watch this entire interview with Whittaker. It's not every day you get to watch a video and feel much smarter after having watched it than you were before. I learned a lot from this and have much food for thought to chew on.
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BTW, you owe it to yourself to watch this entire interview with Whittaker. It's not every day you get to watch a video and feel much smarter after having watched it than you were before. I learned a lot from this and have much food for thought to chew on.
Brian Long in this interview speaks alarmingly several times about the ability of "open source" models to evade controls against these sorts of fakes.
not only do these models lack signature benefits many of us have traditionally associated with "open" in favor merely of running the black boxes locally, "open source" is being associated directly with this sort of exploitation
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/02/12/ai-deepfake-online-tools
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Brian Long in this interview speaks alarmingly several times about the ability of "open source" models to evade controls against these sorts of fakes.
not only do these models lack signature benefits many of us have traditionally associated with "open" in favor merely of running the black boxes locally, "open source" is being associated directly with this sort of exploitation
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/02/12/ai-deepfake-online-tools
@idlestate wow, OK I'll bookmark that.
It touches on another but somewhat related problem: people associate "open source" with "good" and that's a fallacy. Just because a technology is open source does not mean it is inherently good.
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I've been saying for a long time now that "open source AI" isn't really open source. We are being manipulated.
I'm glad to hear Meredith Whittaker is fully in agreement on this point.
The debian foundation also had a proposal to greatly limit what can be called an open model by their standards to require releasing the actual training data too:
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