@marksaroufim I tried to draft something similar ages ago using LLMs. It would be great to actually do something like that with lawyer feedback:
1:58 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 1.6K Views
GPU MODE adopts the Researcher Reciprocity License, requiring anyone training models on its datasets to grant reciprocal generation rights
Google DeepMind's Andreas Kirsch helped develop the legal framework.
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Users appreciate GPU MODE adopting the Researcher Reciprocity License for Datasets because it matches their past attempts to draft similar terms with LLMs and could improve with lawyer input.
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Yiping Deng@YipingDeng5
@marksaroufim What if they just jack up the price for researcher for exactly the same thing?
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Léo@Leik0w0
@marksaroufim @a1zhang « if you train on my work for free, I should be able to use your model for free »
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Mark Saroufim@marksaroufim
GPU MODE has powered much of the public GPU kernel work online, with a permissive license from day one and generous credit from researchers, NVIDIA, AMD, and others.
Today we’re moving our datasets to the Researcher Reciprocity License.
Mark Saroufim@marksaroufim
June 9th Researcher Reciprocity License
"if you train on it, you let us generate - reverse terms of use void"
Status quo 1. We teach frontier devs with ICLR/NeurIPS papers, OSS Github contributions 2. They use it to make frontier models 3. Then ban us from exploring our ideas
We need a new license, original thinkers can't be an underclass to a tyrannical researcher fiefdom
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Alex YGift@Radipdegen
@marksaroufim license pivots are always a trust check
curious how many devs actually read before they agree
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Sarah 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️@SarahLacard
@Leik0w0 @marksaroufim @a1zhang « if you trained on work that i made generally available, then you too must make your product generally available »
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Rugbist@rugbist_
@marksaroufim this license structure is interesting but it only works if they can actually enforce the reciprocity clause. is that enforceable?
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