I agree that releasing model weights is “partially open sourcing”—in much the same way that freeware is “partially open sourcing” software, or restrictive licences with code availability is.
But that’s exactly the point; you don’t get to call something X because it’s kind-of-like X, it needs to actually fulfill the requirements in order to get the label. What is being called Open Source AI doesn’t actually do the thing that it needs to.
I agree that releasing model weights is “partially open sourcing”—in much the same way that freeware is “partially open sourcing” software, or restrictive licences with code availability is.
But that’s exactly the point; you don’t get to call something X because it’s kind-of-like X, it needs to actually fulfill the requirements in order to get the label. What is being called Open Source AI doesn’t actually do the thing that it needs to.