Russia has very low population density, too, yet I pay 10$/mo for unmetered 4G Internet and calls, and that's after dramatic price spikes that raised prices from 6$/mo a year and a half prior.
To be completely fair, even open-source AIs are a little bit of a black box due to the way neural networks work - but I'd greatly appreciate if we at least knew the parameters on which it is trained.
It is absolutely possible to train all sorts of biases in a closed-source AI, and that's what would be very hard in an open-source model. You can roughly set up outputs at whatever. In other ways, using open-source practically removes the malicious human factor (without removing positive impact)
Open-source models also can't be restricted, paywalled or limited in any meaningful way, which is also vital.
Ah, that name was left from when they've been open-source, which us why I advocate for the emergence of GPL-licensed projects.
The open-source license for GPT model was very relaxed, which OpenAI took advantage of and, once it could afford their own programmer staff, closed the code with all the contributions all the programmers from all over the world have made.
It's an extremely dick move, and it was repeated by Google, too.
Small counter point: while it is heavily important to be able to shake off life hardships, we should still fight for the world with less unnecessary harm.
Particularly, when you go about professional pursuits, we shouldn't turn them into a fierce competition that would benefit no one, but should instead stand together and collaborate to make this world better for us all. And in that regard, comfort culture is a much better fit than the culture of the grind; granted, you don't crank it up to the extremes and still develop and learn new stuff to become better at what you love.
Hot extreme opinion: copyright shouldn't exist, and authors should be covered by other means, particularly public funding based on usage numbers and donations.
People are crazy when they promote closed-source AI (okay, okay, generative model) projects like ChatGPT, Bard etc.
This is literally one of the most important technologies of the future, and after all the times technology companies screwed them (us) up big time and monopolized the Internet, they go into the same trap again and again.
First they surrendered the free Internet, now they surrender the new frontiers.
Wake up, people. Go HuggingFace, advocate for free AI, and ideally - for a GPL one. We cannot afford for this part of our future to be taken away from us.
Fun part is, Aspergillus oryzae (fungi used to make koji) can develop into dangerous strains that release heavy toxins able to easily paralyze an adult forever.
Good if not beheading