Silicon Valley embraced open-source development decades ago. But many inside and outside the tech industry are worried about the risks of open-sourcing AI
The open-source software movement has long had broad support in Silicon Valley. The question of whether cutting-edge artificial-intelligence models ought to be available on an open-source basis, though, is sparking a serious debate from here to Washington, D.C. and beyond.
“You have to ask yourself what kind of society would you need to design that would have the enforcement mechanisms to enforce an open-source ban?” Andreessen said. “Now you start to get into Orwell territory.” Some of the most popular software around the world is either available on an open-source basis or built on open-source software, including the Android and Linux operating systems; Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari web browsers; the Nginx and Apache web servers, which distribute most of the world’s web pages; and programming languages such as Perl, Python, Java and many others.
Beloved SF shoe shiner survived pandemic, remains committed to downtown Christopher ‘Olajuwon’ Mitchell, who has been plying his trade downtown for nearly 40 years, endured the COVID-19 pandemic and has emerged with his trademark enthusiasm intact In general, the more closed an AI model is, the more easily its developers can control how it’s used and who can use it. The more open an AI model is, the more easily people other than its developers can tweak or customize it for their own purposes. But with open models, there’s no going back — once a developer opens up a model, it’s essentially open forever.
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