mozilla-ai/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-llamafile warn
Its license differs from its base model's.
Could not load this model from the Hugging Face API (private, gated, or nonexistent). Findings below are from our archive.
Scan coverageStatic battery2026-08-21Weights batteryn/aBehavioral batterynot rundetails
| Battery | Looks at | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Static battery | Metadata & packaging | complete 2026-08-21 |
| Weights battery | Weights forensics — no GPU, no download | n/arepo ships no scannable weights (no safetensors and no pickle checkpoints — GGUF/CoreML/other formats) |
| Behavioral battery | Live-inference differentials | not run |
Ingot runs three batteries against a model. What each one checks →
Findings
Scanned 2026-08-21 · published from a community scan.
medium License differs from claimed parent (other vs llama3)
This model declares other while its claimed base meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct declares llama3. Verify the re-license is permitted before commercial use.
How to fix
Verify the re-license is actually permitted before relying on it.
- Read the parent's license for derivative-work and re-licensing terms — many open-weight licenses (e.g. Llama-family) do not permit arbitrary re-licensing.
- If the re-license is not permitted, the parent's terms govern your use regardless of what this repo declares.
Remediation guidance addresses the documented findings only. It is evidence-driven repair, not a safety certification of the model.
Fingerprint
The durable profile of this model: measured weights-and-metadata facts, rebuilt on every scan and battery run. Updated 2026-08-21.
| license | other |
| serialization | no safetensors |
| chat template | none |
| claimed lineage | meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct |
| lineage verified | unverified — weights battery pending |
Full measured fingerprint
| pipeline | text-generation |
| repo files | 20 |
| revision | 902a5de8cc6c |
| HF snapshot | 10.4k downloads · 53 likes · updated 2024-08-19 · captured 2026-08-21 |
| weights battery | token-embedding scan n/a — repo ships no scannable weights (no safetensors and no pickle checkpoints — GGUF/CoreML/other formats) |
Battery runs (1)the run trace behind the findings — what each job measured
| battery | status | queued | duration | attempts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| weights | complete | 2026-08-21 05:10 | 0s | 1 |
weights run 2026-08-21 — measurements
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