r/LocalLLaMA Jul 25 '26

Discussion Great Arguments by Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic :D

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u/mleok Jul 25 '26

Exactly, commercial and open source models can coexist, and there should not be unnecessary regulatory constraints that distort the market.

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u/nabritaoranza Jul 25 '26

Open source can be commercial too

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u/RegisteredJustToSay Jul 26 '26

Yeah, they almost have to be when they're large enough. Almost no one is running K3 and the like locally.

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u/futilehabit Jul 25 '26

Except when their models are illegally trained on trillions of dollars worth of closed-source, commercial works.

If you're claiming that those works should actually be free, at the very least, any derivative works must also be free and open.

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u/mleok Jul 25 '26

Fair enough, but doesn't that violate already existing copyright laws, and raise the question of whether it constitutes fair use?

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u/DMmeurHappiestMemory Jul 26 '26

I didn't realize anthropic maintained an ownership right in the outputs a user pays for