Why “models” is being discussed
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1. Because that's exactly what happened when they got caught downloading the entire internet and trained models on it without a license BEFORE that became legal? Oh and discover…
by spwa4 · Oct 17, 2026
Or we could assume since new data is increasingly AI generated then the next generation of models are inherently born out of incestuous relationships so I would imagine Claude's…
by tomkarho · Oct 17, 2026
I’ve been listening to this rhetoric about the open models eating O/A’s lunch for like 18 months, meanwhile their revenue is up what, like 50x? May this kind of worry find me…
by senordevnyc · Oct 17, 2026
I haven't tested audio, but in general, for specific tasks, classifiers tend to do better than decision models ("general classifiers" based on LLMs): https://jeffyclas…
by nico · Oct 17, 2026
Didn't know about that but it makes sense Was creating characters for a clients social media avatar and so was doing various tests with the latest bunch of models and omg the ch…
by 1000xcat · Oct 17, 2026
we dont' need to "freeze" models if next versions aren't a huge improvement over previous ones. That seems to be case now.
by dominotw · Oct 17, 2026
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A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin modulus, 'a measure'. Read more on Wikipedia