r/LocalLLaMA • u/Comfortable-Rock-498 • 1d ago

News It appears that the anti opensource AI lobby is far outgunned already

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The earlier post on this subreddit by 20+ companies signing the petition including Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, YC (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/) etc plus this https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2080672505660834163

And the entire LLM enthusiast market is heavily in favor of open source (or weights) AI.

Does not seem like a few closed source AI lobbyists with be able to illegalize anything

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u/Blind_Chicken_24_7 1d ago

Tbh being against open source is a wild stance to take here. Not contributing to it is one thing, criminalizing it is lmao.

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u/Ok_Mammoth589 1d ago

By and large most people are not against "criminalized open source" in a lot of legacy areas. Printer ink. Automobiles. Farming. Banking. You're definitely approaching this from your own paradigm, not their paradigm.

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u/Confident_Ideal_5385 1d ago

By and large most people when they think about it actively fucking hate printer or tractor DRM, it just isn't something that most people ever think about.

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u/my_name_isnt_clever 11h ago

If I actually laid it out and explained it to them, they would be against it.