Can open-source AI models be trusted? Experts debate licensing, risks, and more

“OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google say that AI has to be done in this way. What is that way? Collect or scrape humongous amounts of data with or without permission, build a huge AI model with thousands of GPUs running. We are saying there is an alternative way,” said Chaitanya Chokkareddy, an open-source enthusiast and CTO at Ozonetel, who came up with the idea of a Telugu AI story-telling assistant called “Chandamama Kathalu”.