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Model weights are not source code, but data. Arguably because of how they are generated, they are not even copyrightable at all.
by ronsor 3y ago
Model weights are not source code, but data. Arguably because of how they are generated, they are not even copyrightable at all.
- adamsmith143 3y agoCorporate data is of course protect-able. Otherwise why don't you just open up all your databases so anyone can access them?
- DannyBee 3y agoThey are only protectable by copyright you the degree they are creative works of authorship. Copyright is not usually how these are protected.
- WrongAssumption 3y agoCopyright protection is what gives protection when you put something out into the public. The desire to not publish something is evidence against having these protections, because people know they are not copyright able, so for that reason and others they keep it private. You just presented evidence against your position.
- ftxbro 3y ago> "Model weights are not source code, but data." OK but I mean it's functionally a kind of machine code for a strange machine with a neural transformer architecture, like a 'binary blob'. It's outside of the paradigm where machine code is created only by compilation of copyrightable source code written by humans following their creative "aha moment".