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OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models

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LLMs have become privately-controlled research infrastructure

OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models LLMs have become privately-controlled research infrastructure Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan Mar 22, 2023 38 10 Share Researchers rely on ML models created by companies to conduct research. One such model, OpenAI's Codex, has been used in about a hundred academic papers 1 . Codex, like other OpenAI models, is not open source, so users rely on OpenAI for accessing the model. On Monday, OpenAI announced that it would discontinue support for Codex by Thursday. Hundreds of academic papers would no longer be reproducible: indepen

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