<story><title>Gemma: New Open Models</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>The terms of use: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that caught my eye in the terms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google may update Gemma from time to time, and you must make reasonable efforts to use the latest version of Gemma.&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest benefits of running your own model is that it can protect you from model updates that break your carefully tested prompts, so I’m not thrilled by that particular clause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>a2128</author><text>This is actually not that unusual. Stable Diffusion&amp;#x27;s license, CreativeML Open RAIL-M, has the exact same clause: &amp;quot;You shall undertake reasonable efforts to use the latest version of the Model.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Obviously updating the model is not very practical when you&amp;#x27;re using finetuned versions, and people still use old versions of Stable Diffusion. But it does make me fear the possibility that if they ever want to &amp;quot;revoke&amp;quot; everybody&amp;#x27;s license to use the model, all they have to do is just post a model update that&amp;#x27;s functionally useless for anything and go after anyone still using the old versions that actually do anything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gemma: New Open Models</title><url>https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonw</author><text>The terms of use: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;terms&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ai.google.dev&amp;#x2F;gemma&amp;#x2F;prohibited_use_policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that caught my eye in the terms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Google may update Gemma from time to time, and you must make reasonable efforts to use the latest version of Gemma.&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest benefits of running your own model is that it can protect you from model updates that break your carefully tested prompts, so I’m not thrilled by that particular clause.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tgtweak</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think there&amp;#x27;s a way they can enforce that reasonably.  There&amp;#x27;s no connection to the mothership to report back what version is being used or license keys at runtime...&lt;p&gt;Seems more like a &amp;quot;if we discover something unsafe you should update your model and we aren&amp;#x27;t liable if you don&amp;#x27;t&amp;quot; than something that would make your model stop working.</text></comment>