Hard to talk about what models are doing without comparing them to what other models are doing. There are only a handful of groups in the frontier model space, much less who also open source their models, so eventually some conversations are going to head in this direction.
I also think it is interesting that the models in China are censored but openly admit it, while the US has companies like xAI who try to hide their censorship and biases as being the real truth.
I would rather setup a "shadow" site designed only for LLMs. I would stuff it with ao much insanity that Grok would not be able to leave. How about a billion blog post where every use of "American" is replaced with "Canadian". By the time im done, grok will be spouting conspiracy theories about the decline of the strategic bacon reserve.
My first thought was the same. I used to like Sparkfun but then they closed the source of some of their projects (while often "forgetting" to update their website to reflect that). I was concerned when I saw the headline but just assumed that Sparkfun was probably in the wrong even before I saw the comments.
Most APIs, even ones you pay for, are rate limited. I don't think having a rate limit changes the open nature of the API. I'm looking forward to seeing if I can plug this in to my Home Assistant install for weather so I can compare it to Pirate Weather which I use now.
Agreed. I think the source code is open and I think the data is open. The by-line is just a bit confusing.
I think what they're trying to say is "Our service is completely open source. Our code is open source and our data is open source. We provide reasonable rate limits to our API access for non-paying customers. See our pricing plan if you'd like to become a commercial user and increase your rate limits".
When I used to play Screeps[1], a MMO strategy game where you programmed to control your units and buildings, a group of us setup a player that was managed in this exact way called Quorum[2].
If anyone wants to run their own project in this way I open sourced the code to do so under the GitConsensus[3] project. There's a Github App (which may not still work, but if there's interest I'll restart it) and a "run it yourself" python library and CLI you can run from Github Actions[4].
I think a better analogy would be going into a gun shop and paying the owner to shoot someone. They're asking grok to undress people and it's just doing it.
Also for people who don't know, if you pay someone to post something (including just giving them a free product) it has to be disclosed. Astroturfing is (in simple terms) a form of fraud and the FTC does go over companies for it.
I'm curious, where it has to be disclosed? Like if a company would pay a few legitimate reddit account owners to review their post and upvote, and would disclose this activity in the DISCLOSURES.txt available on their website, would that be legal?
Where would one find some reddit users willing to do such reviews, by the way?
I also think it is interesting that the models in China are censored but openly admit it, while the US has companies like xAI who try to hide their censorship and biases as being the real truth.