Openwashing in Alpaca and Proprietary Qt

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 15, 2023

• Alpaca: A Strong Open-Source Instruction-Following Model

  We emphasize that Alpaca is intended only for academic research and any commercial use is prohibited. There are three factors in this decision: First, Alpaca is based on LLaMA, which has a non-commercial license, so we necessarily inherit this decision. Second, the instruction data is based OpenAI’s text-davinci-003, whose terms of use prohibit developing models that compete with OpenAI. Finally, we have not designed adequate safety measures, so Alpaca is not ready to be deployed for general use.

• Stanford Alpaca, and the acceleration of on-device large language model development

  So it’s still not something we can use to build commercial offerings—but for personal research and tinkering it’s yet another huge leap forwards.

• Introducing Qt Insight

  We are excited to announce the launch of Qt Insight!