Ridicolous demands for model gate.
Sure, demanding e-mail for the gated repo is one thing, but come on.
Full legal name, country, affiliation and job title?
What is the purpose of this? Privacy infringement?
AFAIK, mirroring the weights is permitted by the license so it shouldn't be strictly necessary to send this to the all-so-privacy-compliant meta.
https://modelscope.cn/models/LLM-Research/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct
fyi a chinese huggingface clone that simply mirrors it; no login needed
Regarding the reason of the info, I heard from my pals that Meta also blocks anything Chinese. I bet there are other targeted countries as well so gl..
Sure, demanding e-mail for the gated repo is one thing, but come on.
Full legal name, country, affiliation and job title?What is the purpose of this? Privacy infringement?
AFAIK, mirroring the weights is permitted by the license so it shouldn't be strictly necessary to send this to the all-so-privacy-compliant meta.
It's not even that anything lofty is being demanded. They are basically auto-rejecting anybody who puts something like "Independent" or "n/a" as their organization. But you can more or less put anything relatively structured to look like an organization name but completely troll-y and get approved. So if you're a legitimate, independent, machine learning researcher/developer f*** you. But welcome aboard Anime Feet Inc.
As a result many people's main accounts have been bricked and now have to rely on mirrors.