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Why forges need to be archived in SWH ?
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Software Heritage is a non profit organization, hosted by Inria (french
research institute), in partnership with Unesco. Our mission is notably to
preserve software source code as a cultural heritage of human knowledge and
for the promotion of Open Science. We also defend strong ethical values
Software Heritage is a non profit organization, hosted by Inria (french
research institute), in partnership with Unesco. Our mission is notably to
preserve software source code as a cultural heritage of human knowledge and
for the promotion of Open Science. We also defend strong ethical values
about the usage of the archived data.
As a universal archive, we are committed to archive any publicly available
source code, especially when this code is published under free/open source
As a universal archive, we are committed to archive any publicly available
source code, especially when this code is published under free/open source
licence.
If your forge contains non-FOSS projects that you don't want to expose to
If your forge contains non-FOSS projects that you don't want to expose to
archival or to any "wild" copy, we recommend you to set them as private.
Indeed, publicly available projects can be archived by anyone using the
Save Code Now feature (archival of a single repository), so we cannot
guarantee that they won't be archived even if we don't process an Add
Forge Now request.
Indeed, publicly available projects can be archived by anyone using the
Save Code Now feature (archival of a single repository), so we cannot
guarantee that they won't be archived even if we don't process an Add
Forge Now request.
What is the position of SWH towards AI training and LLMs ?
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We've recently published a `statement to explain our position towards LLM:
<https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/10/19/swh-statement-on-llm-for-code/>`__
<https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/10/19/swh-statement-on-llm-for-code/>`__
Our principles are the following:
1. Knowledge derived from the Software Heritage archive must be given
back to humanity, rather than monopolized for private gain. The resulting
machine learning models must be made available under a suitable open license,
back to humanity, rather than monopolized for private gain. The resulting
machine learning models must be made available under a suitable open license,
together with the documentation and toolings needed to use them.
2. The initial training data extracted from the Software Heritage archive
must be fully and precisely identified by, for example, publishing the
corresponding SWHID identifiers <https://www.swhid.org/> (note that, in the
context of Software Heritage, public availability of the initial training data
is a given: anyone can obtain it from the archive). This will enable use cases
such as: studying biases (fairness), verifying if a code of interest was present
2. The initial training data extracted from the Software Heritage archive
must be fully and precisely identified by, for example, publishing the
corresponding SWHID identifiers <https://www.swhid.org/> (note that, in the
context of Software Heritage, public availability of the initial training data
is a given: anyone can obtain it from the archive). This will enable use cases
such as: studying biases (fairness), verifying if a code of interest was present
in the training data (transparency), and providing appropriate attribution when
generated code bears resemblance to training data (credit), among others.
3. Mechanisms should be established, where possible, for authors to exclude
3. Mechanisms should be established, where possible, for authors to exclude
their archived code from the training inputs before model training begins.
Additionally, I would like to mention that as long as your code is publicly
available, it might have already been used by private LLMs without matter of consent
and attribution. Software Heritage represents an ethical alternative, with a strong
effort to help authors to get more control and traceability on the usage of their
Additionally, I would like to mention that as long as your code is publicly
available, it might have already been used by private LLMs without matter of consent
and attribution. Software Heritage represents an ethical alternative, with a strong
effort to help authors to get more control and traceability on the usage of their
source code by LLMs.
Furthermore, computer-readable standards for LLM usage restrictions (equivalent of
robots.txt) should emerge in the near future to bring global answers to these
Furthermore, computer-readable standards for LLM usage restrictions (equivalent of
robots.txt) should emerge in the near future to bring global answers to these
concerns.
At this stage, the only way to ensure that your code is not used by any LLM would be
At this stage, the only way to ensure that your code is not used by any LLM would be
to set your repositories as private.
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