LLaMA weights are effectively public domain data according to the criteria outlined in statement issued by the US copyright office two weeks ago [1]. Those wei

LLaMA weights are effectively public domain data according to the criteria outlined in statement issued by the US copyright office two weeks ago [1]. Those weights are an original work that was created by a mechanical process that involved no human authorship and involved no creativity. Those weights are not copyrightable under current US law. I still wouldn't recommend basing anything serious on them until Meta gets taken to court for playing loose with the DMCA. [1]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05321/copyright-registration-guidance-works-containing-material-generated-by-artificial-intelligence https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...