alt Hacker NewsFrom my understanding, distilling the model with another model is not illegal per se. Also, the output of the LLM is public domain by law, too.
So, why all this "effort" to protect the model? This is a free market, and moving fast and breaking things is the norm.
If they are so adamant on protecting their IP, maybe they can start by respecting others' IP, so we can start talking about ethics, equality and playing fair.
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Philpax • yesterday at 11:39 PM
It's not illegal to distil the traces, but it is also not illegal for them to try to stop it.
zaphirplane • yesterday at 9:46 PM
> Also, the output of the LLM is public domain by law
Why so? Also there is a lot of code in ironically claude and ChatGPT that’s generated by LLM . Yet I haven’t seen the public domain code
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> distilling the model with another model is not illegal per se.
Just because it is legal, that doesn't mean Anthropic wouldn't reasonably want to prevent that from happening (which, from my understanding, isn't illegal either).