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hassenhamdi 
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I want to remind community that, making tech safe and beneficial and using it responsibly is a collective responsibility and I urge every member of community that value rational and ethical use of tech, AI etc. to take action, stand and speak against any conduct that might cause things to shift toward undesired path,
Yesterday a dataset been uploaded on huggingface ,your favorite daily place for AI dataset, model, post ,research, learning about AI etc, for military applications which is against ethics and responsible AI, huggingface policies as stated in their restricted content list:

1. Unlawful or illegal Content
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Content promoting high-risk illegal activities (weapons development, illegal substances, scams, gambling, pseudo-pharmaceuticals, plagiarism, etc.).
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3. Harmful or Abusive Content
Terrorist Content or Content that glorifies **violence**, suffering, or humiliation.
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we may also moderate other types of Content in response to evolving challenges posed by advancements in Machine Learning.

I urge community to report any content against ethical use of tech stack including AI , keeping huggingface good place for AI and data enthusiasts.
Here the link to the dataset: ZennyKenny/tactical-military-reasoning-v.1.0
Take action report it, let the platform stay an enjoyable place for whatever you are using it for AI , Data etc.
JLouisBiz

I don't agree on that. Any kind of such limitations is making the model proprietary and that means it's going to enter into less space and is going to help less people on this planet. The truly free software or open source model like LLM should not be limited because there is no limitation how a user is supposed to use it. Everybody should be able to use it how they wish and want. Another issue is there is no way for the author or anybody else to find out who used it in a way how you or author think it wasn't appropriate.

Let's just compare it to the everyday objects we use in our life. Let's say a chair and a keyboard, monitor or desk. When you are buying it or getting it for free from someone, do you get some kind of limitation? Please, this is the chair but you are not allowed to use it inappropriately or sit inappropriately or use the chair for other purposes but sitting. You don't.

So please think about that. People can definitely use chair to kill somebody or a desk to destroy things including using keyboard or monitor to fight.

And now how is somebody going to use their computer and software? Leave that for them because that's the point of free software. They can use it as they wish.

And just remember there is no way for anybody to control how somebody on the other side of the planet is using it.

This means that appealing to the ethical sense of honest and ethical people doesn't need to be there because they are already honest and ethical. And appealing to the sense of in-honest people is anyway not going to work. So you can't ensure of that anyway.

What is Free Software? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

So read here and learn about the four free software freedoms.

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@JLouisBiz I have read your comment but it does not make any sense , what is the purpose of regulations and law if there is no limitations to what one can do.

We are not talking about chair here or any ordinary object for innocent usage, we are talking about war tech developement, are a chair and war tools that made primary for destruction and killing the same !!!?

They are not , probably if compared it with a gun it might be more comparable , you can have a gun to protect yourself but you need a permission for possessing a gun as us citizen or you get arrested for possessing unathorized item, you ask why , to unsure public safety, but even with such procedure there still horrifying incident that happens, we are not talking about something similar to chair here, the analogy is poorly representitive of the present situation.

And it is not about opensource and free software it is about not developing war tools.

Take an example someone using their computer for piracy , cyber threats , scams fraudelent activities etcs., do you let them just go their way or some actions need be made to protect people , war tech are far worse than any thing mentioned earlier.

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