Open generative models are to open source what open source is to closed source - an even deeper level of openness, customisability and accessibility. Like open source they empower their users, are private and easy to adapt. Most of the time you just need to prompt, other times you apply a fine-tuning tool, which is also open source.

I really don't understand open source people combating generative AI. I've never seen this ethos since the javascript framework wars. Take a look at llama.cpp, ollama and vllm repos and their friends. They got such a sustained rate of development and participation.

I for one am looking forward to LLM-based super-decompilers that can recognize assembly patterns and understand what the high level intent was. Suddenly there would be a wealth of effectively open-source code (with the hope that it wouldn't change much about SaSS-ifying things since that's mostly already done where the market will bear it).