Comment by andy99

> obsession with precise terms

They’re not really even being precise. The relevant software freedom, from the FSF is []

  The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Ported to the model world, this is fulfilled by sharing the weights and implementation. There’s almost nothing that having the training data gets you (other than actually training it). The weights plus a reference implementation let you see all the states to study the behavior, and let you fine tune it to do your bidding (the abliteration etc). The freedom is satisfied.

Some might argue that without the training data you couldn’t do some classes of experiments to see how it works, say leave-one-out retraining. I’d argue things like that are not really about the model but about ML research or the class of models, which while interesting is not a free software pre-requisite.

[] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms