I’m encouraging people to stop using the framing of “democratizing access”.
I think this framing is misleading because, given current polls, it’s not at all clear that the population (at least of the countries I’ve seen surveyed) would vote for frontier models to be open-sourced.
The phrase “democratizing access” doesn’t mean “distributing access in line with a popular vote” but “distributing access to the people”. This is definition #2, “make (something) accessible to everyone.” See democratization of knowledge for more of this kind of usage.
I’m encouraging people to stop using the framing of “democratizing access”.
I think this framing is misleading because, given current polls, it’s not at all clear that the population (at least of the countries I’ve seen surveyed) would vote for frontier models to be open-sourced.
The phrase “democratizing access” doesn’t mean “distributing access in line with a popular vote” but “distributing access to the people”. This is definition #2, “make (something) accessible to everyone.” See democratization of knowledge for more of this kind of usage.
Sure, and I think we should stop using this definition as it unnecessarily confuses people/distorts the conversation.