Words mean what people use them to mean. Ship has sailed whether you approve or not.
You can choose to use the wrong words all you want. Doing so intentionally is an interesting choice.
Communication is not a one-player game.
For example, if I was being pedantic:
> nobody seems to care about using the right words in only this context.
"nobody" would include you.
And then I might complain about we use the word "weight" for something massless, or how "bugs me" is *ento*mologically incorrect: https://xkcd.com/1012/
This is of course not a good use of time. I wonder if illustrating the point about how language is dynamic and meanings are descriptive not proscriptive, was a good use?
yeah, I'm not sure what your goal is pedantically picking apart my argument when the subject at hand is clearly not "open source". love xkcd though. :P
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Yup. An extremist wing of the FOSS movement ceded the debate early on by trying to insist open source required full access to the training data. Philosophically, not wrong. But practically fucked, so the word evolved.
Within tech circles, open weight != open source. Outside them, they’re synonyms.
Example: The first time I saw the New York Times use “Open Source” in a headline, what they meant was open weights.
also, you can do a lot to finetune or repurpose an open weight model. much more easily than you can mod closed source binaries.
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