Open-source drama: should curating community recipes without credit be a scandal?
HankYeomans · x · 2026-10-04
- An open-source community dispute erupted around @MiaAIlab, which tested and published a curated best-of of openly shared recipes without crediting every contributor.
- The author finds the criticism understandable but points to a double standard: top open-weight models got there partly by distilling closed labs' models against their terms, yet are celebrated as proof open source is winning.
- Core argument: provenance either matters or it doesn't — it can't only matter when your own name is missing.
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