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heckj

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:

"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit

https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/

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@tante @colincornaby Have you looked at https://allenai.org/olmo? For most of the "open weight" models, I'd completely agree - but the Olmo3 work in particular exposes all of the training data as well, which I read as one of the core arguments in that piece. They not only share and show their data, they discuss - in quite some detail - their training processes, including experiments on the pros and cons for techniques on relatively weaker models.

If you haven't seen it, it's very worth looking.

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

President Trump has signed three executive orders imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on imports from China.

heckj ,
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@w7voa Notably reducing the Canada tariff on "energy products (oil)" to 10%.