Maybe Meta's Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act
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EU law is all in the Articles. AFAICT the recitals can be used in determining purpose, when courts have to interpret ambiguity. But so can other facts!
Recitals maybe seem weird because we don't have them in UK legislation. Maybe the nearest thing is Explanatory Notes? If you want to know what a law says, read the law itself. But if the law makes no sense (either as a lay person, or because the law is badly drafted even for legal folks) then the Explanatory Notes may offer some insight.
The biggest barrier to the licence passing open source requirements is point 0 in the above linked evaluation. Namely that it has a whole lot of "you may not use this for [nefarious purposes...]" type of statements. That seems like ass covering so that this can comply with the responsible AI use laws such as the EU AI act.
Christ almighty. The act is neither long enough nor hard enough to read and understand yourself
How long would it take you to read that thing? I'm a reasonably fast reader and it would take me hours.
(https://wordcount.com/character-counter estimates 5 hours and 46 minutes)
Are you a dedicated member of the "LLMs have no legitimate uses" camp?
In case it wasn't obvious, my blog post is meant to be equally about the "Meta/open source/EU AI act" thing and the "look at what you can do with these new long context models that were released in the last few weeks" thing.
As so often is the case with my LLM projects this one wasn't a case of choosing between "read the EU AI act or pipe it through an LLM" - it was a choice between "pipe the EU AI act through an LLM or lose interest in this mild spike of curiosity and go and do something else instead."
yes, yes I would.
> How long would it take you to read that thing? I'm a reasonably fast reader and it would take me hours.
For most of the "few questions" you can skim most of it
> Are you a dedicated member of the "LLMs have no legitimate uses" camp?
I'm in the camp of "do not offshore your thinking process to a non-deterministic black box whose whole mode operandi is to always generate plausible-looking answer and then profusely apologize if it was caught to produce invalid output".
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Also, "five hours to read an important legislation written in a surprisingly clear language is too long and nigh impossible" is the premier reason about so much bullshit disinformation about EU AI Act, DMA, GDPR and plethora of other, less important regulations
LLMs are a tool.
Relevant section:
> Article 53(2) provides an exception from the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models regarding technical documentation (Art 53(1)(a)) and providing information to downstream providers (Art 53(1)(b)) if the models are released under a free and open-source license and their parameters (including weights), information on model architecture, and information on model usage are made publicly available. This exemption does not apply to general-purpose AI models with systemic risks.