Does anyone know if the major dealbreaker “Additional Terms” apply to Gemma? Because I don’t want to touch anything Google related with a 100 foot pole given the following:
> Use restrictions
You may not use the Services to develop machine learning models or related technology.
Law tends to go by plain English meaning, ex. here, you understand that the idea isn't to ban people from interacting with Gemini, but rather, to stop them from using it to develop new models (i.e. using it's outputs as inputs for training another model)
The issue I find problematic is "Google may update Gemma from time to time, and you must make reasonable efforts to use the latest version of Gemma." - it's a bit vague - I guess it's not enforceable!
It's probably CYA for any liabilities stemming from issues discovered/not fixed downstream after Google has addressed them. It's hard for Google to enforce offensively, but great for defense!
Ye I guess that's a good point! Sadly some people I chatted to don't really like this, since it constrains and confuses the finetuning aspect of Gemma - ie if we finetune on top of it, then Gemma v2 is released, do we have to do another finetune on top of the latest release?
> Use restrictions You may not use the Services to develop machine learning models or related technology.
https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai
Note that using Gemini chat model develops it so, taken extremely seriously, this is a blanket ban on sending text to Gemini