The ‘steelman’ against OSS models is that because they undercut OpenAI/Anthropic, they discourage investment in training runs. To a degree, that’s true, but it also misses the oft quoted ‘jevons paradox’ which works the other way as well. Jevon’s Paradox is an economic principle stating that improvements that increase resource efficiency often lead to increased , rather than decreased, total consumption of that resource. This is especially true for intelligence, where potential demand is infinite. The price will be so low, making the demand so high - there will always be profit in training a better model - even if the gross margins and lack of pricing control don’t end up leading to absurd concentration of wealth and power. submitted by /u/kaggleqrdl
Originally posted by u/kaggleqrdl on r/ArtificialInteligence