So-called "technology transfer" at universities is a disease for [open] science. Episode #1451.
A student of mine asked the authors of a security paper, involving LLMs and cyberattacks, details about their experimental setting, which were crucial for reproducibility (and reviewability…).
Answer (from tech. transfer staff): « To receive the code and the prompts, [university] would need to enter into a license agreement (with strong confidentiality clauses and a $30,000 onetime fee) »
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