If we are assessing the impact of open-sourcing LLMs, it seems like the most relevant counterfactual is the “no open-source LLM” one, right?
Google could slap some filter on its search engine or the underlying LLM to make it not tell you stuff about scary biotech, but there’s no analogous thing you could do with open-source LLM weights (to the best of my knowledge).
If we are assessing the impact of open-sourcing LLMs, it seems like the most relevant counterfactual is the “no open-source LLM” one, right?
Google could slap some filter on its search engine or the underlying LLM to make it not tell you stuff about scary biotech, but there’s no analogous thing you could do with open-source LLM weights (to the best of my knowledge).