If you came here after only reading the headline, you missed what the complaint is actually about:
It's not that GPT-4 is closed source. It's that access to `codex` model was pulled with only three days notice, and the model itself was not open-sourced. Since apparently a large number of researchers were writing papers which used that particular model, that means all of those research papers are now non-reproducible.
An obvious thing to do would be to either open-source older models (including the weights) when retiring them; or possibly transfer them to an institution who see their role specifically as serving as an archive / reference for this type of purpose. Open-sourcing older models shouldn't result in too much of a risk, either from an "AI Safety" perspective, or from a competitive perspective.
It's not that GPT-4 is closed source. It's that access to `codex` model was pulled with only three days notice, and the model itself was not open-sourced. Since apparently a large number of researchers were writing papers which used that particular model, that means all of those research papers are now non-reproducible.
An obvious thing to do would be to either open-source older models (including the weights) when retiring them; or possibly transfer them to an institution who see their role specifically as serving as an archive / reference for this type of purpose. Open-sourcing older models shouldn't result in too much of a risk, either from an "AI Safety" perspective, or from a competitive perspective.