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Legalese and licenses aren't to make sure no X will download/install/or run something. It's to make it a matter of legal record that you stated they should abs
by coldtea 1y ago
Legalese and licenses aren't to make sure no X will download/install/or run something.
It's to make it a matter of legal record that you stated they should abstain.
Copyright warnings on music and DVDs never stopped people pirating them either.
- johnisgood 1y agoI know. That is why I do not get what is the big fuss about.
- Adacarg 1y ago[dead]
- randomNumber7 1y agoMost companies abide the law. So no self hosted LLM for europeans.
- johnisgood 1y ago... what? Self-hosted LLMs are precisely for individuals.
- randomNumber7 1y agoA lot of companies and research institutes in the EU would like to be able to use a locally hosted LLM for their employees so they don't have to worry what data they give away. Also it is not rational for any individual to buy the hardware for running a serious LLM and then let it idle 99.9% of the day.
- johnisgood 1y agoWhy would not these companies or research institutes in the EU not be able to run locally hosted LLMs for their employees though?
- randomNumber7 1y agoWhat model do you propose that is close enough to chatgpt or Claude so people will actually use it for their work?
- johnisgood 1y agoI am not up to date with the models, but I have heard good stories about a couple of open source models. You should ask Simon Willis. I hope he will be summoned (@simonw).
- randomNumber7 1y agoIt was my point that currently the best open weight models are from China, so not usable in the EU. But of course the world changes so rapidly that what is now is irrelevant tomorrow.
- bit1993 1y agoTry selling pirated copies and see what the warnings are really about.
- coldtea 1y agoWhen CDs and DVDs were a thing people wanted, there were people selling pirated copies on every corner, so...