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The problem is that open source philosophy and large language models don't mix. How can you support open source licensing, while completely ignoring that licen

The problem is that open source philosophy and large language models don't mix. How can you support open source licensing, while completely ignoring that licencing to construct you model? That's the biggest reason for the lack of "AI Stalman" imo, that's asking for someone that vehemently supports taking any content they can get their hands on to make the content generator irrelevant, while also supporting the idea that content distributed with open source licenses need to have their terms respected. Edit: I think what you're asking for does exist, just not in the large language model space. There are many people calling for datasets to be more ethical(e.x. not breaking licenses) and for better AI models, it's just that none of them are trying to push a different model made using the same techniques by someone else.

cherryteastain 3y ago
> content distributed with open source licenses need to have their terms respected I think we can begin more BSD-like. Take it, use it, do whatever you want with it even if it's commercial. > datasets to be more ethical Not what I am personally concerned with. Law is still ambiguous in this respect, no rulings have actually said (afaik) training on copyrighted content without permission is infringing. It's quite apparent at this stage that models that train on copyrighted content without approval of the content creator will always out scale those that do not. If permission becomes a prerequisite, I began to think that free-as-in-freedom LLMs will likely need to be made people who can ignore copyright either because they're really good at anonymizing themselves or they live in places that do not enforce Western copyrights (Russia, China, various Latam countries). Once copyright becomes a concern, the government gets another tool to sic its dogs on you, and copyright is a very convenient way to destroy an enterprising FOSS LLM dev's life without looking tyrannical.

cherryteastain 3y ago

> content distributed with open source licenses need to have their terms respected I think we can begin more BSD-like. Take it, use it, do whatever you want with it even if it's commercial. > datasets to be more ethical Not what I am personally concerned with. Law is still ambiguous in this respect, no rulings have actually said (afaik) training on copyrighted content without permission is infringing. It's quite apparent at this stage that models that train on copyrighted content without approval of the content creator will always out scale those that do not. If permission becomes a prerequisite, I began to think that free-as-in-freedom LLMs will likely need to be made people who can ignore copyright either because they're really good at anonymizing themselves or they live in places that do not enforce Western copyrights (Russia, China, various Latam countries). Once copyright becomes a concern, the government gets another tool to sic its dogs on you, and copyright is a very convenient way to destroy an enterprising FOSS LLM dev's life without looking tyrannical.