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Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI (gizmodo.com)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Even not-fully-reproducible open-weights models are extremely important because they're poison to OpenAI, and they know it. It makes what they're trying to commodify and control effectively free and utilitarian.

But there are fully open models, too, with public training data.