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What is IRE?

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It's a department at meta: Intellectual Rights Enforcement. /s

"Ire" is a synonym for "anger" or "wrath"

That's actually what I thought it might be. Thanks lol.

Your initialization hinted it. I must say, if Meta had a IP-litigation department called "IRE" or "MIRE" (Meta Intellectual Rights Enforcement), that would be a little on the nose.The unofficial motto would be "We will bog you down in the courts for years"

It’s a noun meaning anger or wrath. Usually it’s specific not just to triggering anger the emotion, but an angry response. So attracting Meta’s ire means attracting an angry response from meta - like the legal response users of LLaMA have triggered.

It’s not an acronym.

Ire is the result of irritation.

Oh this is good. :)

Are you saying we shouldn’t scratch Meta’s itch?

The real thing we should be asking is if the 3B or 7B model is capable of correctly answering this question.

anger. probably a lawsuit in this context

There were no lawsuits around LLaMA. They used DCMA requests to take down some GitHub and HuggingFace releases but the majority of releases (Alpacas and other animals) was left alone. It was enough to prevent commercial use, though. Edit: a lawsuit would be quite interesting, to clear up many things around how copyright works for LLMs.

They're going to court with the guy who made llamaDL actually.

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