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Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because 'Zuck has balls,' a former top Facebook engineer says (www.businessinsider.com)

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Meta made its Llama 2 AI model open-source because 'Zuck has balls,' a former top Facebook engineer says::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a big risk by making its powerful AI model Llama 2 mostly open source, according to Replit CEO Amjad Masad.

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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calling ML models "Open Source" is already confused. Because they are not programs, but rather formats, they don't come 1:1 with the source.

You can obtain a model and train it futher. Similliar how you can get JPEG file with permissive licence, edit it and share it. Having the GIMP/Photoshop project from the image was created from is helpful but not nessesary.

[–] dym_sh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

here's core difference: the nature of ai-models is generative, but all layers in a .PSD file are inherently static.

better analogy would be rendering of a fractal — a limited subset of infinite possibilities, but to explore the rest of them you need both rules and data