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I'm willing to bet a nonzero amount of its training material is GPL, so I'll treat it as GPL licensed instead and use it however the fuck I want. If AI labs ge
by unrented7977 17d ago
I'm willing to bet a nonzero amount of its training material is GPL, so I'll treat it as GPL licensed instead and use it however the fuck I want.
If AI labs get to ignore licenses, so do we.
- JaggerJo 17d agoAgreed.
- user43928 17d agoIt's not going to matter unless you plan to commercially deploy the model, as far as I see. If you were to generate outputs for commercial use, I think it would still violate this research license, but it's not like they are going to know, are they? That said, I am disappointed that the model is not actually open-weights as I expected based on the headline.
- soulofmischief 17d agoIt could have an attempt at steganographic watermarking trained into the model.
- iwontberude 17d ago[dead]
- Tanjreeve 17d agoThat seems quite important. Definitely requires any grown up company to have to do a bunch of legal paperwork to use it.
- CamperBob2 17d agoIt's not going to matter unless you plan to commercially deploy the model, as far as I see. It's not going to matter then, either. What are they going to do, sue me for copyright infringement?
- KeplerBoy 17d agoYes? If you deploy the model and provide it on Openrouter (or elsewhere) you better have a license.
- CamperBob2 17d agoNo need to deploy it publicly. It's 7B, it'll run on a 3090.
- KeplerBoy 17d agoYou talked about commercially deploying it. Of course nobody cares what you are doing on your own hardware for fun.
- CamperBob2 17d agoUsually the way the licenses are interpreted, if I run it myself and use it to generate $X million in revenue in my own business, I'm subject to the license. In this case, the license seems to cover any commercial usage at all, which would certainly include self-hosting for internal business purposes. Why even bother demanding such terms? Release the weights or don't release the weights, but this is silly. No one is going to pay them to run or host a 7B static image model.
- nozzlegear 16d agoWhy not? If it's cheap enough, and presuming I had any reason to use an image model, I'd consider paying for it on OpenRouter over hosting it myself.
- finnjohnsen2 16d agoyes, but it uses 17gb VRAM when running a 50 inference steps generation from prompt. Which is more than I expected since a 7B model sounds little.
- bdonlan 16d ago
- soulofmischief 17d agoYou are not wrong, but will a judge and jury be competent enough to understand the difference after you've spent several hundred thousand in litigation?
- dannyw 17d agoYou really think Alibaba is going to go around and sue in US courts for something like this? It’s more of something to scare companies with legal teams. If you’re an individual or hobbyist doing a side project the risk is essentially zero.
- urbnspacecowboy 16d ago> I'm willing to bet a nonzero amount of its training material is GPL Image data? > GPL licensed instead and use it however the fuck I want GPL is not a "use it however the fuck I want" license. Maybe you're thinking of the WTFPL?
- kouteiheika 16d ago> GPL is not a "use it however the fuck I want" license. Maybe you're thinking of the WTFPL? No. GPL is a "use it however the fuck you want" license. The GPL has no restrictions on *use*, only on redistribution.
- a96 16d agoYes, having no restrictions on use is the first and most critical software freedom. The others are there more to help protect the first (IMO). GPL in particular tries to reach quite far to protect all of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition