Office space meme:

“If y’all could stop calling an LLM “open source” just because they published the weights… that would be great.”

  • breakingcups@lemmy.world
    161·
    3 days ago

    You’d be wrong. Open source has a commonly accepted definition and a CC licensed PNG does not fall under it. It’s copyleft, yes, but not open source.

    I do agree that model weights are data and can be given a license, including CC0. There might be some argument about how one can assign a license to weights derived from copyrighted works, but I won’t get into that right now. I wouldn’t call even the most liberally licensed model weights open-source though.