i wonder what you guys think about the open weight chinese AIs that are directly competing with the big tech AIs, isnt it a good idea to support projects that have open source and open weight only to make them more advanced than the closed ones from greedy billionaires? i say that because the AI bubble is a huge threat for the elites currently, and if we support their competition it might finally pop.
and the outcome will be a decentralized thing rather than they succeeding on replacing jobs and ruining our lives more than they already do. what yall think about this idea? remember that this is an economic war in the end, and the only way to take down the ones we despise is by decentralizing everything they want to centralize.
im asking this because i noticed people here in lemmy.zip are (justifiably) anti-ai… but only begging the govs that are directly lobbied by the elites wont work. we cannot bet on the government to bite the hand that feeds them.
I think money is the major factor which does the gate-keeping. Let’s say I’m not okay with the other (commercial) models out there. What they do and don’t do, their tone and political bias. Like Elon Musk claims… Now I’m gonna need some 6-digit sum of $$$ to train my own model. And a couple of thousand wage-slaves in a poor country to curate datasets for me, do RLFH. And that’s the real kicker. Musk can do it easily. But I wouldn’t know where to get that kind of money. And it’s prohibitively expensive for community projects. And even large independent organizations like universities struggle to do AI research on the same level as OpenAI, Anthropic, X, Meta, the Chinese, … do it.
I think even if we changed copyright, piled up large, state-of-the-art public datasets, forced them to release the weights, we’d still be in a similar situation as of today. Where we get some breadcrumbs tossed by someone. We can choose whose breadcrumbs we pick. And we can put some topping on it. But it’s not really emancipating in the same way copyleft works for software.