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Weights might be copyrightable but in no universe are they copyrightable by OpenAI, Google, etc just because they did the training and spent money on GPUs. The

Weights might be copyrightable but in no universe are they copyrightable by OpenAI, Google, etc just because they did the training and spent money on GPUs. The only people who can possibly own the copyright, if any such copyright exists, are the authors of the training data. I find this whole discussion about copyright of weights almost absurd, the incredible amount of deference given to our corporate lords is such that we are “hallucinating” new forms of IP protection for NN weights that have never existed in any kind of statue or case law and cut completely against the grain of all the law that currently exists.

mikewarot 3y ago
>Weights might be copyrightable but in no universe are they copyrightable by OpenAI, Google, etc just because they did the training and spent money on GPUs. I don't see why not. If you took all the same training data, you would not get the same weights. Especially if RLHF was used to tune those weights. The weights are not a set of facts, they are the result of work, sometimes millions of dollars of work. Surely they deserve copyright protection if they are ever "published". If not, then they are a trade secret, and other rules apply.