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It is indeed a fact that OpenAI's Terms of Use do state that you can't use their service to develop competing models: Section 2.c.iii - https://openai.com/poli
by lhl 3y ago
It is indeed a fact that OpenAI's Terms of Use do state that you can't use their service to develop competing models: Section 2.c.iii -
https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
Now of course, the terms are not the law (so don't govern the use of the generated data by any third party), they are an agreement between two parties. If you did click "agree" then that's a binding agreement and there could be legal/contractual repercussions (some of which are outlined in the terms).
- haldujai 3y agoThat seems like a likely explanation, probably won't get into legal trouble for using an OpenAI model for a research paper but redistributing said model may be upsetting enough for OpenAI trigger a legal challenge. Unnatural language used davinci-002 although that was a while ago, they only say "similarly" in this paper and don't specify what they used. I can't see a reason why they wouldn't be releasing it if the unnatural prompts were generated by LLaMA2-family. In any case, replicating this training seems trivial and very cheap compute-wise for anyone who wanted to do it.