Also, it's very shady for a company called OpenAI. They claimed they became for profit because they needed the money to grow, but these restrictions just show that they are filthy liars and only care about keeping the power and making profit. I'm sure they already have a strategy going around that 30B cap, just like they planned stealing money and talent by calling themselves non-profit first.

Alpaca was only trained on 50k instructions, right? A large group of grad students or a forum like reddit could construct that many manually in a couple weeks. I'm surprised they even had to resort to using ClosedAI

Boo hoo to openai, people should do it anyway. Is the terms of service the only reason not to do it or are there actual material barriers? If it's a problem of money then as long as people know how much money it can be crowdfunded. If it's a matter of people power then there are already large volunteer networks. Or is it just something that isn't practical or feasible?

Classy, especially when they are breezing past any copyright of the datasets they are training off of. I wonder if they can legally enforce that without creating a potentially bad precedent for themselves. Or if it could be worked around if the training was indirect through something like Alpaca.

But what if you're training a model for a narrow use-case and don't intend for anyone to use it except for a niche set of users? Is that enough to be in the clear? Or is any use of OpenAI's model output to train a model for any purpose a no-no?