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Apologies for the dumb question - can these models be used at my work, i.e, for commercial purposes? What is the legality of it?
by akudha 2y ago
Apologies for the dumb question - can these models be used at my work, i.e, for commercial purposes? What is the legality of it?
- smallerize 2y agoIn the USA, code generated by a computer cannot be copyrighted. So you can use it for commercial purposes, but you can't control it the way you could with code that you wrote yourself. And that's legally fine, but your company's legal department might not like that idea.
- akudha 2y agoBut this model can be used for more than generating code, no?
- lodovic 2y agoThat's not entirely accurate. In the US, computer-generated code can be copyrighted. The key point is that copyright protection extends to the original expression in the code, but not to its functional aspects, such as algorithms, system design, or logic.
- kittikitti 2y agoThis person has no idea what they're talking about. "Code generated by a computer"?
- smallerize 2y ago"works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-copyright-office-withdraws-copyright-for-ai-generated-comic-artwork/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-co...
- minimaxir 2y agoPhi-3-mini has a MIT license, which is commercial friendly: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct
- nicce 2y agoDo we know for sure that model is not trained with copyrighted material or with GPL-lisenced code? That is the biggest issue right now.
- minimaxir 2y agoThat is the case with every LLM (except a couple research experiments) and won’t be resolved until the courts do. Literally every tech company that uses LLMs would be in legal trouble if that becomes the precedent.
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- nicce 2y agoYes. It is a bigger problem than the correct lisence of the model, and I feel that original commenter is not aware of that. Many companies are waiting for court decisions and are not using even GitHub Copilot. There is even growing business for making analysis for binaries and source code whether they use GPL code or not.