I believe them in that, in so much as I think they are unable to improve their models anymore. Training expenses have been dropping and model improvements have been unimpressive lately. They kinda peaked early this year.
They won’t train on the open internet, because they won’t train at all.
They already trained on everything and employ virtually no scientific experts anymore. They aren’t seeing the jumps they want so they pretend it’s just too dangerous for the public.
I’ve seen so many Discord servers just devolve into degeneracy and power tripping. Anything that wrecks those kinds of spaces is good for everyone.
In theory, it’s all supposed to be permissively licenced code and the opt out is more than other models give. I saw Starcoder as one of the more ethical models. I thought the underlying principals to be fair at least.
I’m interested in this gut hostility to it regardless. Kind of shows how you can’t present LLMs in a positive angle no matter what. They shouldn’t be using anything GPL or similar.
If you want newer packages, yes. Mint is based off Ubuntu 24 LTS and honestly the jump to Ubuntu 26 is worthwhile if you prefer wayland.
Pika OS will ship a few WMs presetup and will be on Debian Sid. Interesting alternative. Personally, a stripped down Ubuntu 26 with your WM will give you the best stability and support.