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Latest revision as of 19:50, 6 June 2024
I recently read a story[1] about some blatant plagiarism in the machine learning world. Here's a few bullet points explaining what happened:
- Three Stanford undergrads released a model on Huggingface called "Llama3-V". Two of them were non-technical and were brought on essentially just to aggressively promote the model's capabilities through blog posts
- The model essentially just took the weights from OpenBMB's MiniCPM-V model[2] and added random noise
- This was discovered by some people in the open-source community who smelled something fishy
- So far nothing has happened, but hopefully Stanford expels the students, or at least applies harsh disciplines
This triggered me a bit and left me feeling more than a little disgusted with the incentives at play for hard tech fundraising.
