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Apologies for the dumb question - can these models be used at my work, i.e, for commercial purposes? What is the legality of it?


Phi-3-mini has a MIT license, which is commercial friendly: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct


Do we know for sure that model is not trained with copyrighted material or with GPL-lisenced code? That is the biggest issue right now.


That is the case with every LLM (except a couple research experiments) and won’t be resolved until the courts do.

Literally every tech company that uses LLMs would be in legal trouble if that becomes the precedent.


Yes. It is a bigger problem than the correct lisence of the model, and I feel that original commenter is not aware of that.

Many companies are waiting for court decisions and are not using even GitHub Copilot. There is even growing business for making analysis for binaries and source code whether they use GPL code or not.


In the USA, code generated by a computer cannot be copyrighted. So you can use it for commercial purposes, but you can't control it the way you could with code that you wrote yourself. And that's legally fine, but your company's legal department might not like that idea.


That's not entirely accurate. In the US, computer-generated code can be copyrighted. The key point is that copyright protection extends to the original expression in the code, but not to its functional aspects, such as algorithms, system design, or logic.


This person has no idea what they're talking about. "Code generated by a computer"?


"works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-co...


But this model can be used for more than generating code, no?




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