Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
This episode of The Hard Fork dives into Silicon Valley's sudden love affair with open-source AI, worker activism at big tech, and Substack's controversial new AI detector. While companies like Meta and NVIDIA champion open models, their motives are questioned, especially as AI systems
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