Is it really necessary to gate your models?
If not, please consider making them freely available again. Thanks in advance for giving this some thought.
Without GGUF versions, people like me and thousands can't use them, because we prefer to use LM Studio, which use quantized GGUF models. We depend a lot from wonderful guys like mradermacher, Lewdiculous, Bartowski, and others, and thank God they do the hard work ! 🙏👍❤️
Being gated does not mean you can't make GGUFs, just that there is an extra (legal and practical) hoop to jump through. And in my personal opinion, it sends the wrong message when users of these models need to de-anonymize to use them, which is why I kindly asked to reconsider.
Being gated does not mean you can't make GGUFs, just that there is an extra (legal and practical) hoop to jump through. And in my personal opinion, it sends the wrong message when users of these models need to de-anonymize to use them, which is why I kindly asked to reconsider.
You're right once more. For example, I sincerely hope that people who use uncensored models today, won't get molested by any agency for using them, or even download them in the future. The world is a changing place, and sometimes, the rules changes and some nasty guys or organizations invent a catch of witches, and searching for guilty. 😱
Nah they aint for release, it's gated because im not sure how to share models to friends for testing?
Kinda not satisfied with them.
If there's a full release I'll make an entire model card, if not ill leave them bare like the tama series (same data, applied differently)
Asking people to give their contact details for access without the intention of ever giving access feels seriously wrong though, to put it mildly?
eh there isnt really a way to make a semi private repo? advice i got was just to make a gated one and to let friends in, hence why I did that
While telling people to give them their details, yes. At the very least, you should tell people about that. As for your repo problem, have you experimented with private repos in an organisation (I haven't, so I don't know if that works)?
i suppose it is a way to monitor who is downloading your models !! -- ie who is your targets !
@Sao10K You can create an organization on HuggingFace, upload or move the models to it, and then invite your friends to it. Anyone in your organization will be able to see private models in it, and you can optionally set their permissions to read-only as well.
I personally think that labeling the models experimental and letting a larger number of people test them would be best, but if you want to keep them private for testing, then creating an organization is a much cleaner approach that would remove confusion in the future.
So you're just going to ignore peoples requests?
Folks, he's a hero, not a villain, and he has a valid reason for what he has done, he just did it in a suboptimal way. He deserves our support, not our reproach.