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Sure, but that's still going to be a commercial product you'll have to pay for. Right now you can run LLaMA (and it's rapidly multiplying fine-tuned descendants

Sure, but that's still going to be a commercial product you'll have to pay for. Right now you can run LLaMA (and it's rapidly multiplying fine-tuned descendants) for free. The risk for these startups you describe as working on this as you type is the same thing happening to them that happened to Meta when they released their LLaMA params: they started getting copied all over the place. And it's not clear that Meta can do anything about this. It seems that params aren't copyrightable.

skissane 4y ago
> And it's not clear that Meta can do anything about this. It seems that params aren't copyrightable. There is a legal argument that they aren’t in the US, but I don’t think that argument has been tested in court yet. Even if the courts uphold that argument-it is likely to fail in other countries, many of which have lower standards for copyrightability than the US does; and it is always possible Congress will respond by creating a new form of IP protection for them. That’s happened before - courts ruled that semiconductor masks weren’t copyrightable, so Congress invented a new “semiconductor mask right” to give copyright-equivalent protection to them. Given the amount of media focus on AI, if courts rule params can’t be copyrighted, very likely Congress invents “AI parameter rights”