Open-source is NOT the same as open-weight

It’s no exaggeration to say that open-source software — in which the complete source code is available to anyone — has changed the world and accelerated software development. But open-source and open-weight are two very different things, and too many people —this morning it was editors and writers at The New York Times among others—are failing to distinguish the two. The essence of open-source is twofold: transparency and customizability. If you want to know how something works, you look at the code. You can change literally anything about that code (“forking” a new version of that code, for example, if you want to make a different version). All of this is fantastic for the community, and that is...

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