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Cake day: February 8th, 2026

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  • They call it open-weighted and not open-source because they don’t have the training material (stolen books lol) but still want to pretend they are l33t hackers not bound to BigTech.

    Yes, it’s possible to use it locally with a $2000 computer (that’s for the cheapest ones) but you’ll only get a few words per second. It doesn’t matter to the vibe coders who don’t know how to code.

    The software to run that is open-source but the training of the model (the “open-weight” black box) requires to destroy the environment at least once.

    Last but not least the free models are obviously censored but people don’t care about censorship anymore for some reason. “Tiananmen didn’t happen? Not my problem” without understanding that more is hidden.

    Anyway, no, there is nothing ethical about it.