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Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 3 days ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are free open source models you can run locally and they have all the answers.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

But can anyone train on them? What happens to the original dataset?

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

There are open weight models that users can download and run locally. Because the weights are open, they can be customised and fine tuned.

And then there are fully open source models, that publish everything, the model with open weights, the training source code, as well as the full training dataset.