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Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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Re: Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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It's immediately become difficult to untangle the licensing here. Is this safe for production use - I have no idea if I can expect a DMCA from Mark if I step out of bounds with this or other post-Alpaca models, unless I'm missing something important. Meta really botched the Llama release.

Re: Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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This is really great news and something I felt was missing from the market so far. It seems everyone wants to create `moats` or walled-gardens with some aspect of their models etc.

Nice job DataBricks, nice numbers too. Looking forward to more improvements.

Re: Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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It's immediately become difficult to untangle the licensing here. Is this safe for production use - I have no idea if I can expect a DMCA from Mark if I step out of bounds with this or other post-Alpaca models, unless I'm missing something important. Meta really botched the Llama release.

This has nothing to do with facebook. The foundational model here is GPT-J which is opensource and safe to use. Sadly, it is inferior to state-of-the-art models such as LLaMA.

Re: Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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It's immediately become difficult to untangle the licensing here. Is this safe for production use - I have no idea if I can expect a DMCA from Mark if I step out of bounds with this or other post-Alpaca models, unless I'm missing something important. Meta really botched the Llama release.

> Meta really botched the Llama release.

It's no surprise really though, from what I see they recognised some way to monitize and rolled back their commitment.

But this Dolly doesn't depend on Llama (unless I'M missing something), so you don't have to use it.

Re: Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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It's immediately become difficult to untangle the licensing here. Is this safe for production use - I have no idea if I can expect a DMCA from Mark if I step out of bounds with this or other post-Alpaca models, unless I'm missing something important. Meta really botched the Llama release.

Why? Dolly had nothing to do with Llama or its weights.

Besides: How would anyone ever know which model generated the output you are serving? AFAIK there is no fingerprint in any model’s output. And even if there was, it would probably be destroyed by fine tuning “over it”.

Re: Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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It's immediately become difficult to untangle the licensing here. Is this safe for production use - I have no idea if I can expect a DMCA from Mark if I step out of bounds with this or other post-Alpaca models, unless I'm missing something important. Meta really botched the Llama release.

This has nothing to do with facebook. The foundational model here is GPT-J which is opensource and safe to use. Sadly, it is inferior to state-of-the-art models such as LLaMA.

But they're "using data from Alpaca". I don't know what that means, isn't Alpaca using data generated by ChatGPT, which isn't "clean" to use? Or data from Facebook, which isn't "clean" to use? I'm drowning.

Re: Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has nothing to do with facebook. The foundational model here is GPT-J which is opensource and safe to use. Sadly, it is inferior to state-of-the-art models such as LLaMA.

But they're "using data from Alpaca". I don't know what that means, isn't Alpaca using data generated by ChatGPT, which isn't "clean" to use? Or data from Facebook, which isn't "clean" to use? I'm drowning.

I don't know the full details but Alpaca is from Stanford and only based on the LLamA (not a derivative work afaik). That said :

Also Meta's licensing here https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/LICENSE

Can't be sure what that license actually reffers to, the language model or just the tooling in the Git Repo.

I agree its a minefield, but with Meta I would eer on the side of caution.

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