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AsthmaBeyondBorders t1_irnnljm wrote

Reply to comment by starstruckmon in Stability AI is making an open source language module! by Akimbo333

Virtue signaling or maybe they just thought it would work out, or maybe the objective was to be decent in many languages but not as good as gpt-3 and this wasn't really a surprise to anyone because they wanted to research how the same model may behave differently in different languages with different grammar rules? Or maybe it was never meant to be a final product and they needed to test it before deciding what to do on their next models? Or maybe they thought coming up with a copy of another AI would be more irrelevant than coming up with an AI that has something different to offer? I think virtue signaling is at the bottom of the list of possibilities here dude.

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starstruckmon t1_irnsty3 wrote

Depends on your definition of it. There's definitely a bit of this

>Or maybe they thought coming up with a copy of another AI would be more irrelevant than coming up with an AI that has something different to offer?

but another reason was that it's easy to get funding ( in the form of compute in this case ) from public institutions when there's a virtue signalling angle.

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