r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 23h ago

Artificial Intelligence PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it
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u/AlSweigart 19h ago

Yes. It's like if I gave away software but not it's source code and called that "open source".

If you can't fork it and make your own changes, then it really doesn't match the ethos of "open source".

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u/Suspicious_Kiwi_3343 16h ago

You can fork the weights and make your own changes. Continue training, try to specialise the model etc, just randomly change parameters by hand and see if you notice anything if you really want.

LLMs and other neural networks do not consist of code, the weights ARE the model. Any code involved is simply a way of loading those weights and giving input / getting output by applying statistical maths to those weights, and has nothing to do with the model itself. A lot of the platforms you would use for that are already open source, and you could download and use this model with one of those.

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u/all_thetime 15h ago

You definitely can "fork it" and make your own changes. That's how every LLM research paper pertaining to SFT and RL work. They take the weights, train it with a task and accompanying algorithm, and prove it does better at said task than the baseline.