> Saying it again: If a business releases a model, we have a right to demand that it is useful for us because we're the business' costumers
Open models == free == no customers. For open foundational models, yours sounds like a demand that someone else invests millions in training a foundation model of your liking, but you're not motivated enough to fine-tune your copy of the model for hundreds or thousand of dollars?
If you're not paying for the "censored" proprietary models, you are not a customer either. If you are a paying customer of "censored" models, and would like them to change, remember businesses have the right to choose who they want as customers - and they can decide they don't want the "uncensored" market segment. I'd love a $25,000 electric Ferrari too, but Ferrari is not about that.
You're right, businesses can choose their market segment, there's nothing wrong with that. They just have to bear with the loss of costumers when the segment they were aiming for makes demands they're not prepared to fulfill.
In your example, it doesn't have to be Ferrari specifically. Someone could make an equivalent product at a lower price even.
But I have something else to say about your comment.
It's that nothing is entirely free. Google lets us use their search service, but we're paying with something else than money.
When a business "gives away" an open model "for free" it's only on their self-interest, and this does not free them of the expectations/responsibilities with their costumers. No matter what form that self-interest takes, we're still their costumers even if it's not money.
So if they release an open model subpar with what we expect, they're gonna end up losing.
> Saying it again: If a business releases a model, we have a right to demand that it is useful for us because we're the business' costumers
Open models == free == no customers. For open foundational models, yours sounds like a demand that someone else invests millions in training a foundation model of your liking, but you're not motivated enough to fine-tune your copy of the model for hundreds or thousand of dollars?
If you're not paying for the "censored" proprietary models, you are not a customer either. If you are a paying customer of "censored" models, and would like them to change, remember businesses have the right to choose who they want as customers - and they can decide they don't want the "uncensored" market segment. I'd love a $25,000 electric Ferrari too, but Ferrari is not about that.