For these open source experts, it's all about standards. For Meta, it's all about the money.
  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    A friend of mine worked on the team that wrote the EU AI legislation. He is a fucking genius and so are his colleagues. There is little chance he can simply “change the definition of open source”. He might be able to challenge the EU definition in court and postpone paying,but be will pay.

    The brussels bureaucracy is a absolutely fed up with US tech bro antics by now and both Microsoft and Google have already learned their lesson. Zuckerbergs Meta still tries to resist,but he will fall as well.

    Funnily this is absolutely speed up by their antics in the US as this leads to more and more lawmakers here realising that the European societies need to be protected from them the same way it needs to be protected from China.

  • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    14 hours ago

    Aww come on. There’s plenty to be mad at Zuckerberg about, but releasing Llama under a semi-permissive license was a massive gift to the world. It gave independent researchers access to a working LLM for the first time. For example, Deepseek got their start messing around with Llama derivatives back in the day (though, to be clear, their MIT-licensed V3 and R1 models are not Llama derivatives).

    As for open training data, its a good ideal but I don’t think it’s a realistic possibility for any organization that wants to build a workable LLM. These things use trillions of documents in training, and no matter how hard you try to clean the data, there’s definitely going to be something lawyers can find to sue you over. No organization is going to open themselves up to the liability. And if you gimp your data set, you get a dumb AI that nobody wants to use.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    22 hours ago

    Looking at any picture of mark suckerberg makes you believe that they are very much ahead with AI and robotics.

    Either way, fuck Facebook, stop trying to ruin everything good in the world.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    378·
    2 days ago

    Money? Is it money?

    clicks article

    For Meta, it’s all about the money.

    Shocking.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      149·
      2 days ago

      I taught myself programming in the 80s, then worked myself from waitress and line cook to programmer, UXD, and design lead to the point of being in the running for an Apple design award in the 2010s.

      But I cared more than anything about making things FOR people. Making like easier. Making people happy. Making software that was a joy to use.

      Then I got sick with something that’s neither curable nor easily manageable.

      Now I’m destitute and have to choose between medicine and food, and I’m staring down homelessness. (eta I was homeless from age 16-18, and I won’t do that again now, with autoimmune dysautonomia and in my mid-50s, even if the alternative is final.)

      Fuck these idiots who bought their way into nerd status (like Musk) or had one hot idea that took off and didn’t have to do anything after (this fucking guy). Hundreds or thousands of designers and programmers made these companies, and were tossed out like trash so a couple of people can be rock stars, making more per hour than most of us will see in a lifetime.

      Slay the dragons.

        • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
          22·
          1 day ago

          His “idea” was about how to monetize a concept already in existence on MySpace, facilitated by completely ignoring any ethical constraints. That, and a snobbery-based product launch through the Ivies.

        • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
          12·
          1 day ago

          You’re right. I forgot about the lawsuit and settlement (for $65m). They’re both frauds.

      • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I’m sorry you had to go through this and are suffering. There are people that can (literally) feel your pain, I hope that can give some comfort.

        I’m lucky to be in Europe, otherwise I would (very likely) be dead and broke if not.

    • don@lemm.eeEnglish
      211·
      2 days ago

      The time it took me to reach this conclusion, after seeing the headline, is measured in quectoseconds.

  • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    901·
    2 days ago

    I dont give a fuck what you want mark. nobody is. what i want is for you to fuck off.

  • will_a113@lemmy.mlEnglish
    154·
    2 days ago

    Kinda funny how when mega corps can benefit from the millions upon millions of developer hours that they’re not paying for they’re all for open source. But when the mega corps have to ante up (with massive hardware purchases out of reach of any of said developers) they’re suddenly less excited about sharing their work.