Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > In the examples I've heard of, that is never the case.  Either they
  > > are secret -- users can only use them on a server, which is SaaSS, see
  > > https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html --
  > > or they are released under nonfree licenses that restrict freedom 0;
  > > see 
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html.

  > That is not accurate; LLMs can definitely run locally on your machine.

We are slightly miscommunicating.  Yes there are models that could run
locally on your machine, but all the ones I know of were released
under a nonfree license.

  > Here is an LLM released
  > under Apache 2 license [0].

I haven't seen this before.  Maybe it is an exception.
Could you confirm that this is a language model itself, not the
program that runs the language model?

  >  There are "black-box" models, served in the
  > cloud,

Could we please not use the term "cloud"?  There is no cloud, only
various companies' computers.  See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing.


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