I think a post-training common would have to be somewhat protected, since these things would be created with great effort and would potentially impact people's ability to earn money in their jobs.
I could also imagining them happening as state projects for the sake of competitiveness.
I'm not sure I'll do it justice, but one of the general ideas behind open-model initiatives is that the economic impacts of specialized post-training are a fait accompli. OpenAI and Anthropic have spent $many-millions procuring closed posttraining data.
The relevant question here is whether you want open-weight models — projects like Open Athena — to remain or become competitive in the same range of specialties.
> I also wonder when the NSA starts sharing their wiretaps/etc with labs for 'national security'.
What would this benefit the NSA? If they share wiretap records with labs such as Anthropic, then suddenly anyone who can jailbreak a model gets access to this data. You don't need to train a model on data to understand or interpret it, as far as I know - providing others (esp. AI labs) with sensitive data is a breach of security, or I am not understanding.
Wrong direction. NSA says “give us the weights to Fable and loan us some engineers who can get a TS-SCI clearance so we can train our own model in house, if you don’t well just take them, in fact maybe we already did, it’s for national security”.
A posttraining data commons and the infrastructure surrounding it is the next great open source project IMO, akin to Postgres or Linux.
The Marin project from Stanford (and I believe now ran by Openathena, the authors of this blog post) is really promising and cool: https://marin.community/
I could also imagining them happening as state projects for the sake of competitiveness.
The relevant question here is whether you want open-weight models — projects like Open Athena — to remain or become competitive in the same range of specialties.
I also wonder when the NSA starts sharing their wiretaps/etc with labs for 'national security'. Probably already happening, to be honest.
What would this benefit the NSA? If they share wiretap records with labs such as Anthropic, then suddenly anyone who can jailbreak a model gets access to this data. You don't need to train a model on data to understand or interpret it, as far as I know - providing others (esp. AI labs) with sensitive data is a breach of security, or I am not understanding.
The Marin project from Stanford (and I believe now ran by Openathena, the authors of this blog post) is really promising and cool: https://marin.community/
Precise and very clearly written.