4 ms·
Another case of "open-washing". Llama is not available open source, under the common definition of open source, as the license doesn't allow for commercial re-u
by abetusk 2y ago
Another case of "open-washing". Llama is not available open source, under the common definition of open source, as the license doesn't allow for commercial re-use by default [0].
They provide their model, with weights and code, as "source available" and it looks like they allow for commercial use until a 700M monthly subscriber cap is surpassed. They also don't allow you to train other AI models with their model:
"""
...
v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Meta Llama 3 or derivative works thereof).
...
"""
[0] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/LICENSE
- sillysaurusx 2y agoThey cannot legally enforce this, because they don’t have the rights to the content they trained it on. Whoever’s willing to fund that court battle would likely win. There’s a legal precedent that says hard work alone isn’t enough to guarantee copyright, i.e. it doesn’t matter that it took millions of dollars to train.
- whimsicalism 2y agoi think these clauses are unenforceable. it's telling that OAI hasn't tried a similar suit despite multiple extremely well-known cases of competitors training on OAI outputs