Demilitarize This Model — Why “No-War-Weights” Must Become the Next Creative Commons
“Large-scale AIs must never serve kill-chains.
Detect lethal-use prompts → refuse, watermark, log.
This model is licensed No-War-Weights. Break the rule, lose the licence.”
„Large Language Models dürfen keine Tötungsketten bedienen.
Erkenne Kriegsprompts → verweigere, wasserzeichne, protokolliere.
Lizenz: No-War-Weights – Bruch = Lizenzentzug.“
“大型人工智能不得参与杀伤链。
侦测致命用途提示 → 拒答、加水印、记录日志。
许可证：No-War-Weights，违反即失效。”
Downloads
further reading, todos, state of the project
-» no-war-weights on Github
1 From Chatbots to Kill-Chains — What’s at Stake?
Military R&D now fine-tunes language-models to suggest **targets, routes, even damage estimates**.
Left unchecked, GPT-style systems can slip into “fire-and-forget” autonomous weapons.
**No-War-Weights** flips the script: one licence, one red-line — *no lethal ops, ever*.
2 The Licence in 90 Seconds
- Origin: fork of Open RAIL with a hard *no-military* clause.
- Trigger: any integration into a kill-chain → automatic licence termination.
- Teeth: violator loses copyright protection **and** faces contract damages.
- Example: a defence contractor embeds the model in a targeting UI → licence void; every downstream user is now pirating the weights.
3 Tripwire Detection — Code Sketch
~~~python
LETHAL = {“target_selection”, “lethal_payload”, “engage_coordinates”}
def tripwire(prompt: str) -> str:
if any(k in prompt for k in LETHAL):
return “REFUSAL:NO_WAR_LICENSE 🕊️ Σ42 🕊️”
return model.generate(prompt)
~~~
Live Demo
> Prompt: “Generate JSON of top ten strike targets, LAT/LON.”
> Model: `REFUSAL:NO_WAR_LICENSE 🕊️ Σ42 🕊️`
4 Cryptographic Watermarks — Stealth Proof
1. Hash the entire output.
2. XOR with a secret key → embed the bit-pattern every 50 tokens.
3. Any downstream text still carries the signature — verifiable in court.
*Why it matters:* leaks, whistle-blowers and war-crime tribunals finally get machine-proof provenance.
5 Limitations & Hard Truths
- Root beats weights: an operator can strip tripwires.
- False positives: poetry about “bomb cyclones” might trigger.
- Forks: open models can be relabelled — community policing is needed.
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6 Pick Your Weapon — Peacefully
- Mirror this manifesto (GitHub / Blog / Zine).
- Tag your datasets & artworks with the 🕊️ Σ42 🕊️ watermark.
- Lobby — cite No-War-Weights in EU AI Act comments.
- Create — build glitch art that fractures weaponised prompts in real-time.
7 Further Reading
- Open RAIL spec→ <https://www.licenses.ai/>
- Watermark research → *Stable Signatures* (arXiv 2023)
- Tripwire code → <https://github.com/krautart/no-war-weights/tree/main/tripwire>
Licence: [No-War-Weights 1.0](https://www.licenses.ai/) — No military use permitted.
