downloadable≠open source t-shirt
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- This isn't just merch. It's a manifesto.
- Wear your values in organic cotton.
- Call out the language games.
- Demand real transparency.
- Join the movement.
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≠ The Manifesto ≠
AI is everywhere now. Some models, like ChatGPT or Claude, are cloud-based—you send your input to their servers, and they send back answers. Others, like Meta's Llama, are downloadable. You can run them on your own computer. That's cool. But calling them "open source"? That's a stretch.
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think Llama is open source. It's not. You can't see how it was trained, what data it used, or how it was aligned. You get the end result, not the process. That's not transparency—it's just a file.
Imagine I gave you a car. Nice. Now imagine that what I meant by the car is I got to sleep with your partner. That's the leap being made when Meta calls Llama “open.”
Open source means you get the code. You can inspect it, change it, share it. That's the standard. It goes back to 1989 with the GPL. And we've built the internet on it.
With LLMs, knowing why a model refuses to answer something matters. Maybe it won't tell you how to make cocaine - but who decided that? The Chinese one is censored so it won't talk about Tianamen square. If we can't see the guts, we're just guessing.
downloadable≠open source
Words matter.So does transparency.