It’s costly signaling, we value what we perceive has cost. Driving the perceived cost to zero will plummet the value.
I'd love it if this turns out that this single concept has already been given a name by somebody somewhere.
Are they censored from showing this cautionary tale?? Hah.
That said...
> anymore than there was a single heir to the Roman empire
I'm not exactly sure I'd classify this blog at the same level of influence as the Original Italian Mafioso.
Myself and my colleagues spent many days transforming the weights into various open compatible formats. And its not just us there's many orgs and partners dedicating their time, resources, and companies to making all open models easy to use.
I encourage you to explore the solutions provided by them. We linked some in our blog post here, and there's more. They've all done a fantastic job building frankly an insane amount of infrastructure, documentation, and community support in the last 2+ years. Some of them are here in this HN thread answering questions.