I’m shocked that Ars got this wrong and is helping Apple openwash their work. But I’m seeing this same utterly basic mistake with other tech media as well, like Venture Beat:
There's no open washing — Apple have released the code (both training and inference), the weights and a research paper explaining. It's about as open as you could expect from them.
I didn’t see training source code, but more like a promise to share insights. Am I missing something? Regardless another reason this isn’t open source is because it used a proprietary license instead of an OSI approved open source license.
Why such a negative take? Open washing is similar to green washing, a practice where companies pretend to be environmentally friendly for marketing purposes. To me the term makes immediate sense. What am I missing?
https://venturebeat.com/ai/apple-releases-openelm-small-open...