Have you noticed there's a lot more drama going on here lately?
@finn and I did at least, so we wrote a blog post talking about what happened with VLC and Google, how that drama formed and what you can do to stop spreading misinformation.
https://steffo.blog/outrage-warps-reality/
This is my first-ever blog post that I wrote with someone together, so I hope the way I show what's written by whom is understandable. 
Anyway, thank you, Finn, for helping me write such an important blog post. I think I couldn't have done it without you! 
#blog #android #google #safetycore #vlc #ai #drama #fediverse
@SteffoSpieler @finn A small (but important) correction: there's a lot of talk of "open-source AI models" but the last time I evaluated this, a couple of months ago, exactly zero of the models I looked at from the LLM/transformer corner of the industry were *actually* open-source, despite claims to the contrary.
Often it really just amounted to "you can download the pretrained model" and it was impossible to replicate (or even modify) the training process because one or more components of that process were completely missing in what was released, usually also with little or no information about where the training data came from.
As far as I can tell, when it comes to transformer/LLM/generative/etc. stuff, "open-source models" simply do not exist as a category outside of a few academic experiments that produced useless results.
@joepie91 @finn Sadly, you're right. I'd love to have actual open source AIs that are actually, 100% open source.
I personally say it's definitely better to have a local running AI instead of using a cloud AI, though. Of course, I don't want my stuff (like my blog posts) to be crawled, just to be input for some random AI, but that's the time we live in, sadly...
Thank you for the correction though! (Even though I'm not sure if I can or will put it into the post, because technically, the topic of the post is about drama and not specifically AI... I'll have to think about that tbh ^^')