Community

Other than one example (^finetunellmcommunity1), the rest of the subsubthemes in this subtheme is talking about open source software, not open models. They still are software that somehow augments models, so they are relevant, but the dynamics of community and collaboration is still similar to that traditionally of OSS.

How to support developers making open source software.

• Discusses monetary and other means for supporting open source, like donating money they would have used for a ChatGPT subscription, contributing to the codebase, giving bug reports, and being active in the community around it. (support_open_source, 16)

Collaboration as an affordance of source-availability.

• Open source by nature enables collaboration, as an affordance of source-availability is able to be collaborated on by multiple people in decentralized manner. (collab_as_affordance, 9)
• Collaboration underpins successful open source projects. (collab_open_source, 5)

Since the community revolves around resource-intensive models, they have to be creative with the way they use compute. The first example is on a hypothetical situation (with similar ideas that have implementation details in ^peertopeer3) of sharing compute at the training stage, and the second is on sharing fine-tuned models for others on Hugging Face so that people don’t have to train multiple times.

• People in this subreddit are willing to donate their compute for a distributed training effort. (willing_to_donate, 3)
• There was one example of someone who fine-tune LLMs for the community using the resources they have, and upload the model to Hugging Face. (finetune_llm_community, 1)

Whether the anti-AI community is an ally or not to the open model community. Note that these are both very small subsubthemes.

• The anti-AI community can be allies with the open model community. (anti_ai_community, 1)
  • both want more effective regulation against big tech, both want transparency. i.e., both are against big tech.
• The anti-AI community cannot be allies with the open model community. (anti_anti_ai, 1)
  • the anti-AI community doesn’t want models at all, open or otherwise.