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Comment by mattw2121 | Hacker News Reader

Is there a different link that shows they are prohibiting all use by the Department of Defense? The linked page is their acceptable use policy. From that policy it appears it is fine for the Department of Defense to utilize it, as long as it is not for one of the prohibited reasons.

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>> 2. Engage in, promote, incite, facilitate, or assist in the planning or development of activities that present a risk of death or bodily harm to individuals, including use of Llama 2 related to the following:

>> a. Military, warfare, nuclear industries or applications, espionage, use for materials or activities that are subject to the International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR) maintained by the United States Department of State

The key piece here (IMO) is: "assist in the planning or development of activities that present a risk of death or bodily harm to individuals". There's plenty of DoD activities that are a few steps away from actual conflict engagement. Is helping an engineer move HESCO barriers too close to "activities that present a risk of death or bodily harm to individuals"? What about helping a team learn how to use a weapon or even any piece of equipment within the DoD? Who decides how many degrees from 'these activities' are ok?

In practice you're correct, but the title implies—and the original poster elaborated on this in their comment [0]—that the DoD is banned specifically, while other militaries (specifically the CCP according to OP) are authorized. That is inaccurate—if any military is wholly banned then all militaries are.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37174278

don't think so—I'm reading it the same way you are

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