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I fail to understand the use of the term open source when the resource itself can be bought by oligarchs. Like organic vegetables, or clean coal.
I've downloaded a terabyte worth of models and didn't pay a cent. storage and bandwidth cost money
I just put together a budget starter PC for local inference. I guess this is my cue to set up and get downloading.
It was open source till the ones who has the keys (which shouldn't be a thing for FOSS in the first place) got an offer that made their greed take over. It's a thing that keeps happening and it needs to be a very strong lesson that anything open source needs to be handled in a way where no one can do this.