AI open-source debate gets called too easy to turn into like-farming
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-07-27
The post argues that people are being too unreasonable in the open-source debate and that the topic is too easy to turn into like-farming.
It is a reply to a claim that Anthropic could not have existed without Google open-sourcing the transformer papers, and that calling for less open source while building on open source is ironic.
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