This makes Turbo GPT 3.5 level AI free, private and finetuneable. OpenAI exclusivity shrinks now to GPT-4. That's why I don't think they will be able to keep a large market share in LLMs, any level of AI is going to get open and free soon. SOTA models are also easy to distill by API, very hard to defend against using chat logs as training data for other models. Once we all got one running, maybe in the OS, maybe in t…
It's a shame really: the ultimate cause is the massive amount of wealth inequality we have today. If private entities and governments didn't have so much resources compared to individuals, I'm certain an open-source AI would be the biggest, because open-source has intrinsic benefits over closed-source: you have many people all working on the same project vs. multiple siloed groups, and anyone not affiliated with the private service is biased to use and support the open one. This is why the best operating systems, programming languages, and other software are all open-source: more money != better software, you don't need money to build software as much as you need intelligence and work ethic. But with AI, the #1 limiting factor is web-scraping required to get all of the data, and GPUs to train a model with it (maybe also money to pay Mechanical-Turk workers for simple classification; but perhaps enough volunteers could beat this, plus it seems like unskilled classification is becoming less important since the models can do this on their own).
That's not to say open-source AI won't be great, and I also think most places will use it. Especially if OpenAI is too expensive and/or disallows what they are trying to do. It does put pressure on OpenAI to be more lenient with pricing and acceptable use, and also to keep improving. But unless we address the massive wealth inequality, which is why LAION has substantially less funding than not just OpenAI but also some of the other startups, it's going to always lag behind.