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Colecoman1982 t1_jdjkgjy wrote

Reply to comment by big_ol_tender in [R] Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models by austintackaberry

When you asked, did you clarify that you were asking about the training data versus the whole project? The final Alpaca project was built, in part, on top of Meta's LLaMa. Since LLaMa has a strictly non-commercial license, there is no way that Stanford can ever release their final project for commercial use (as they've already stated in their initial release of the project). On the other hand, any training data they've created on their own (without needing any code from LLaMa) should be within their power to re-license. If they think you are asking for the whole project to be re-licenced, they are likely to just ignore your request.

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MjrK t1_jdjqz9h wrote

> We emphasize that Alpaca is intended only for academic research and any commercial use is prohibited. There are three factors in this decision: First, Alpaca is based on LLaMA, which has a non-commercial license, so we necessarily inherit this decision. Second, the instruction data is based on OpenAI’s text-davinci-003, whose terms of use prohibit developing models that compete with OpenAI. Finally, we have not designed adequate safety measures, so Alpaca is not ready to be deployed for general use.

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html

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Esquyvren t1_jdjsw1j wrote

They said it wasn’t ready but deployed it anyways… lol

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MjrK t1_jdk4ig1 wrote

For demonstration and research, not widely nor generally.

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Disastrous_Elk_6375 t1_jdlix6j wrote

The demo was up for a couple of days. The first hours of it being online were rough (80-200 people in queue). It got better the following day, and better still the 3'rd day. I believe they removed the demo ~1week later. IMO they've proven a point - the demo was extremely impressive for a 7b model.

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big_ol_tender t1_jdjl1wx wrote

I opened an issue on GitHub specifically about the data license and linked to the data bricks release :)

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