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by Zuiii 1173 days ago
LLaMA weights are effectively public domain data according to the criteria outlined in statement issued by the US copyright office two weeks ago [1].

Those weights are an original work that was created by a mechanical process that involved no human authorship and involved no creativity. Those weights are not copyrightable under current US law.

I still wouldn't recommend basing anything serious on them until Meta gets taken to court for playing loose with the DMCA.

[1]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...