If their reason for getting rid of it is lawsuits about harm it caused, my guess is that giving all the details of how the system is designed would be something the prosecution could use to strengthen their cases.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
For a company named “Open” AI their reluctance to just opening the weights to this model and washing their hands of it seem bizarre to me. It’s clear they want to get rid of it, I’m not going to speculate on what reasons they might have for that but I’m sure they make financial sense. But just open weight it. If it’s not cutting edge anymore, who benefits from keeping it under wraps? If it’s not directly useful on consumer hardware, who cares? Kick the can down the road and let the community figure it out. Make a good news story out of themselves. These users they’re cutting off aren’t going to just migrate to the latest ChatGPT model, they’re going to jump ship anyway. So either keep the model running, which it’s clear they don’t want to do, or just give them the model so you can say you did and at least make some lemonade out of whatever financial lemons are convincing OpenAI they need to retire this model.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
That makes sense, and given that I am both incapable and unwilling to understand anything lawyers do, that checks out and explains why I can’t understand it at all.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Remember what Voltaire said about the HRE? Not Holy, not Roman, or an empire? So. OpenAI is the same.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 18 hours ago
It’s not the Voltaires that kill you, it’s the Ampaires.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
That’s watt they say!
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
While I agree about how shit OpenAI is, these are models that could only realistically be utilized by large, for-profit companies like Google and such, and… TBH I’d kinda rather they not.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
It’s not when you understand the history. When StabilityAI released their Stable Diffusion model as an open-source LLM and kickstarted the whole text-to-image LLM craze, there was a bit of a reckoning. At the time, Meta’s LLaMA was also out there in the open. Then Google put out an internal memo that basically said “oh shit, open-source is going to kick our ass”. Since then, they have been closing everything up, as the rest of the companies were realizing that giving away their models for free isn’t profitable.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have realized that their strategy has to be different to compete. So, almost every major model they’ve released has been open-source: DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Moonshot AI, Kimi, WAN Video, Hunyuan Image, Higgs Audio. Black Forest Labs in Germany, with their FLUX image model, is the only other major non-Chinese company that has adopted this strategy to stay relevant. And the models are actually good, going toe-to-toe with the American close-sourced models.
The US companies have committed to their own self-fulfilling prophecy in record time. They will spend trillions trying to make profitable models and rape the global economy in the process, while the Chinese wait patiently to stand on top of their corpses, when the AI bubble grenade explodes in their faces. All in the course of 5 years.
Linux would be so lucky to have OS market share dominance in such an accelerated timeline, rather than the 30+ years it’s actually going to take. This is a self-fail speedrun.