Publishing papers and HF links but refusing weights: is that open source?
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-04
ivanbezdomny questions whether an AI company that publishes a conference paper and lists its model on HuggingFace, yet denies everyone who asks for the code or weights, can call it open source. His tongue-in-cheek answer: technically private, theoretically public under some license — highlighting ongoing open-washing debates in AI.
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