Humanity must have done something to an ancient god somewhere because we seem doomed to repeat both the #Unix Wars and also the Proprietary Software Jihad of the 1990s.
This time, it's former Trump official Dean Ball claiming that open source AI would lead to "full AI communism," and would stop progress.
Total nonsense in both regards. Software made from humanity's library should be open source. #Linux crushed proprietary Unixes & Windows because anyone can modify it.
https://gizmodo.com/the-great-freakout-over-open-source-ai-has-begun-2000787836
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