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Article 53: GPAI model providers
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Article 53: GPAI model providers
Documentation, information, copyright and transparency duties for providers of general-purpose AI models.
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- Guidelines for GPAI model providersguidance
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- Heavy fine-tuning makes you the model providerexample · editorial reading
- Light fine-tuning does not make you a model providerexample · editorial reading
- Modifying a systemic-risk model pulls the heaviest duties to youexample · editorial reading
- Open source in name, but not within the meaning of the Regulationexample · editorial reading
- What the open-source exemption does and does not coverexample · editorial reading
- Police fine-tuning a model for investigations: settle the role question firstexample · editorial reading
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