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The antenna firmware is software. Model weights are essentially learned settings, and they are not software. Note also that software is copyrightable and model
by anon373839 3mo ago
The antenna firmware is software. Model weights are essentially learned settings, and they are not software.
Note also that software is copyrightable and model weights aren’t (in the US anyway).
- croemer 3mo agoNot sure why it matters whether weights are software or not. One can equally argue that firmware is just settings for the CPU. If weights aren't copyrightable then doesn't this argue against the idea of them being able to have the quality of open-sourceness? Meanwhile the training code could be copyrightable.
- anon373839 3mo agoWell, my position is that the software that defines/runs the model is the open-source part. The weights are the asset that makes it useful, but I don’t think 40T tokens of pre-training data should be required to call the model itself open source when you can inspect every line of code in the model without that, as well as instantiate and run the model with randomly initialized weights.