Posts tagged 'AI'

Meta recently released the LLaMA 2 language model. In several places they said it was "open source." It's not. But it has a fairly permissive commercial license that is driving a lot of interest, including among OSPOs.

It seems everyone is scrambling to understand what to do about AI. Based on our work with our clients, here are the emerging issues and best practices.

Every one of our clients has been asking for help on AI issues. We can't reason about AI correctly without understanding how these tools work. Accordingly, I want to bring my latest publication to your attention: Building and Using Generative Models Under US Copyright Law (18 Rutgers Bus. L.R. No. 2, 2023).

A few weeks ago we wrote about how Open Source is coming for AI. At that time we didn't realize how quickly our predictions would start to be realized. In a new leaked document from inside Google, one of their AI team highlighted open source innovation as the primary competition for Google, OpenAI, and other large incumbent firms.

AI is the new hot topic for open source program offices. We previously discussed licensing for AI models, and how many models are restricted to non-commercial use. But open source is coming for AI. Thankfully, the lessons learned managing open source apply to managing AI as well.

The biggest name in AI right now is OpenAI. With its wildly popular ChatGPT, GPT-3 and GPT-4, and Codex products, OpenAI has most of the buzz. But before you use any of its tools, make sure you are read OpenAI's terms of use.

One hot topic that keeps coming up with our clients is how to deal with AI models and their associated licenses. Many ML model licenses are inspired by open source licenses, so OSPOs are being brought in for their expertise. Today's topic is how to think about licensing out your own models and datasets if you want to encourage collaboration, but possibly preserve competitive advantage.

A few months ago we talked about GitHub CoPilot and the controversy it created in the open source community. Since then a lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI (creators of the underlying technology). OSPOs are increasingly being asked whether AI-assisted code is safe to use. The answer, of course, is an unsatisfying maybe.

It was a big week for Github CoPilot last week. There were new allegations of copyright infringement of open sourced code and an announced lawsuit. So how should you think about CoPilot and other machine learning tools trained on open source code?