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The license used isn't important in my opinion, when talking about open source the question is whether the source code is available to be modified and reviewed/interpreted.

Photoshop, or any compiled binary, isn't meant to be open source and the code isn't meant to be reviewable. Llama is called open source, though the most important part isn't publicly available for review. If llama didn't claim to be open source I don't think it would matter that the model itself and all the weights aren't available.

If your argument is just that most software is shipped as compiled and/or obfuscated code, sure that's how it is usually done. That isn't considered open source though, and the line with LLMs seems to be very gray - it can be "open source" if the source code for the training logic is available even though the actual code/model being run can't be reviewed or interpreted.



The source data for the training needs to be public and freely licensed too, otherwise its IMO not an open source model.


Is that really necessary if the resulting model was actually available and comprehensible?

Personally I can't say I care as much about what the training set is, I want to know what's actually in the model and used at runtime/interpretation.


Yes, you can't know what kind of poisoning was done in the initial training data set, and you can't review the data, you can't review any human inputs, and you can't retrain from scratch. All those are things the model author can do, downstream folks/companies/governments should be able to do them too. Otherwise it isn't open source.




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