Recent announcements of Meta had me thinking about “open source” AI systems more, and I am wondering whether it would be worthwhile to reframe open source models, and start referring to them as, “Models with publicly available model weights”, or “Free weight-models”.
This is not just more accurate, but also a better political frame for those (like me) that think that releasing model weights publicly is probably not going to lead to safer AI development.
Recent announcements of Meta had me thinking about “open source” AI systems more, and I am wondering whether it would be worthwhile to reframe open source models, and start referring to them as, “Models with publicly available model weights”, or “Free weight-models”.
This is not just more accurate, but also a better political frame for those (like me) that think that releasing model weights publicly is probably not going to lead to safer AI development.
We can also talk about irreversible proliferation.