They're gonna have a hard time making it illegal to download a completely open source software lol
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Unfortunately, as I've learned recently, it doesn't look like Deepseek is actually open source.
You can download the model, but unless I'm misunderstanding, that feels comparable to calling Photoshop open source because you can download the .exe file on your computer.
Its MIT licensed. Meaning the code is open but the license is permissible in that copy's can be subsequently closed. This is unlike with the GPL most generally associated with open source code.
The weights are MIT licensed. The code is, too, but code for these things are uninteresting.
The training data is not open source, and that's the interesting part of a model.
You can reweight as you please to whatever dataset you like. They can say what the training data included, but they can't share the dataset.
What's this? https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
This comment here seems to summarize it well: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/issues/457#issuecomment-2627016777
It's more open-sourced than I thought, but also seems debatable. I don't know enough about LLMs to properly judge. I would probably stay away from calling it "completely open-sourced" though.
Do not tempt them to outlaw open source.
Facebook already tipped their hand by prematurely banning posts about Linux.
Well now I'm just gonna download it even harder.
Oh I thought we just did Executive Orders these days. Interesting for Congress to want to be in the pocket of the three richest men in the United States, too.
Is this the bill that will finally bring egg prices down?
Because prohibition works, right?
I guess competition isn't a thing in the us anymore. What a bunch of pussies.
Yes, that will definitely put the toothpaste back.
Damn. Okay, everyone that's already grabbed a copy off of Ollama needs to upload it back.
“The downloading of deep seek is causing the prices of eggs to rise, so stop the downloading and the prices will fall!”