When a huge account like
@TheAhmadOsman shares his opinions on this topic it’s extremely important that the open source community listens and most importantly learns. Someone with this type of following and wisdom in the local inference realm wouldn’t be saying this for no reason or for clout which he already has. There are rules and methods in open source work that keep it all HONEST.
There’s a reason why it’s called OPEN.
Misleading others for personal financial gain by uploading your own copy of a model to your own account and calling it an upstream is deceitful and preys on the original works of others. The most insane part about this is HuggingFace charges both accounts for storage, so this “upstream” excuse costs money to host when a simple link to the original weights is much more cost effective and truthful. Then to top it off they continue pushing their books and subscriptions under all of this deceit.
Thank you for your honest work
@TheAhmadOsman and your dedication to this craft.
Thank you to
@Blackwellboy for putting yourself out there on this subject.
Thank you to
@Blackfrost_AI for the amazing work on the CyberFrost model.