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> These fine-tuned models are intended for research use only and are released under a noncommercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, in-line with Stanford’s Alpaca lice

> These fine-tuned models are intended for research use only and are released under a noncommercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, in-line with Stanford’s Alpaca license. This is a no-commercial-use-allowed license; it is neither considered free software nor open source, the definitions of which disallow restrictions on what you can use the work for.

freedomben 4y ago
The two sentences prior are important: > We are also releasing a set of research models that are instruction fine-tuned. Initially, these fine-tuned models will use a combination of five recent open-source datasets for conversational agents: Alpaca, GPT4All, Dolly, ShareGPT, and HH. These fine-tuned models are intended for research use only and are released under a noncommercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, in-line with Stanford’s Alpaca license. The snippet you quoted is not talking about the main model in the announcement. It's talking about fine-tuned models based on other models. Stability has to respect the license of the originals. They cannot change it. The main model is described higher up in the post and is permissible for commercial: > Developers can freely inspect, use, and adapt our StableLM base models for commercial or research purposes, subject to the terms of the CC BY-SA-4.0 license
- btown 4y ago
  It also appears that CC BY-SA-4.0 is GPL-compatible. Not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but it certainly seems like one could operate their own StableLM server/service and allow proprietary code to use it over a network interface, much like one could use a GPL-licensed database system. https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
seydor 4y ago
Not their fault, the instruct-tuned models depend on non-open data.... Which should be open however. Scraping chatGpt is legal
- sanxiyn 4y ago
  Agreed. Scraping ChatGPT is against OpenAI terms of use and OpenAI is entitled to terminate your access immediately upon notice, but since ChatGPT output is not copyrighted (and copyrightable), output you acquired before termination should be freely redistributable. I am not sure why Stanford Alpaca authors think otherwise but they are wrong. https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use Thank you for using OpenAI! These Terms of Use apply when you use the services of OpenAI, L.L.C. (snip) By using our Services, you agree to these Terms. (snip) You may not (iii) use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI. (snip) We may terminate these Terms immediately upon notice to you if you materially breach Sections 2 (Usage Requirements).
renewiltord 4y ago
Interesting. A non-LLM hallucinating. And to think we used to believe that was only a property of LLMs.
- circuit10 4y ago
  Huh? Everything they said is true, isn’t it?
  - renewiltord 4y ago
    StableLM, the model that's theirs is CC-BY-SA 4.0.
    - circuit10 4y ago
      The instruction tuned versions are under a non-commercial license though because some of the data they used is
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freedomben 4y ago

The two sentences prior are important: > We are also releasing a set of research models that are instruction fine-tuned. Initially, these fine-tuned models will use a combination of five recent open-source datasets for conversational agents: Alpaca, GPT4All, Dolly, ShareGPT, and HH. These fine-tuned models are intended for research use only and are released under a noncommercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, in-line with Stanford’s Alpaca license. The snippet you quoted is not talking about the main model in the announcement. It's talking about fine-tuned models based on other models. Stability has to respect the license of the originals. They cannot change it. The main model is described higher up in the post and is permissible for commercial: > Developers can freely inspect, use, and adapt our StableLM base models for commercial or research purposes, subject to the terms of the CC BY-SA-4.0 license

btown 4y ago
It also appears that CC BY-SA-4.0 is GPL-compatible. Not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but it certainly seems like one could operate their own StableLM server/service and allow proprietary code to use it over a network interface, much like one could use a GPL-licensed database system. https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

seydor 4y ago

Not their fault, the instruct-tuned models depend on non-open data.... Which should be open however. Scraping chatGpt is legal

sanxiyn 4y ago
Agreed. Scraping ChatGPT is against OpenAI terms of use and OpenAI is entitled to terminate your access immediately upon notice, but since ChatGPT output is not copyrighted (and copyrightable), output you acquired before termination should be freely redistributable. I am not sure why Stanford Alpaca authors think otherwise but they are wrong. https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use Thank you for using OpenAI! These Terms of Use apply when you use the services of OpenAI, L.L.C. (snip) By using our Services, you agree to these Terms. (snip) You may not (iii) use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI. (snip) We may terminate these Terms immediately upon notice to you if you materially breach Sections 2 (Usage Requirements).

renewiltord 4y ago

Interesting. A non-LLM hallucinating. And to think we used to believe that was only a property of LLMs.

circuit10 4y ago
Huh? Everything they said is true, isn’t it?
- renewiltord 4y ago
  StableLM, the model that's theirs is CC-BY-SA 4.0.
  - circuit10 4y ago
    The instruction tuned versions are under a non-commercial license though because some of the data they used is
- deleted 4y ago
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