I am not making a value judgement on what's the "most important" aspect when comparing the code vs the weights. I am just explaining the terminology as I understand it. Your intuitive sense of open sourcing certainly makes sense to me. I think a lay person would expect to be able to generate content with an "open source ai model" and that wouldn't be possible if only the code was open sourced and not the weights.
If you can show me people who work in AI calling just the weights a "model" then I would happily update my internal definition of the word. I am certainly not an expert in the subject, I am just going off what I've read from the community over the past few years.
If you can show me people who work in AI calling just the weights a "model" then I would happily update my internal definition of the word. I am certainly not an expert in the subject, I am just going off what I've read from the community over the past few years.