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The more I see this argument, the sillier it becomes to me. The point of "open source" in software is something like "the ability to deconstruct the thing line by line for purposes of predicting what it will do."

But you can't fully do that for generative AI anyway? What's the point?

Now, if you wanted something more robust, then you probably should have supported Stallman's ideas and insisted on Free Software in the first place.



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