[ImprobableTruth]

I'm curious, do you not think this might have adverse effects? Namely, if NN weights aren't copyrightable, limited releases like Meta has done might not be possible anymore so they might just cease completely with releases, ultimately leading access to large models to be more restricted.

[sillysaurusx]

I think we already live in that era, unfortunately. Meta's model release is probably going to be the largest for some years.

There's more detail about the upsides/downsides in this thread: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1641804013791215619

[muyuu]

i honestly do not know what is worse from the three realistic alternatives:

1- to have large corporations and people with privileged access to them have these models exclusively and have them collaborate as a clique

2- to have those models openly released to everybody, or de-facto released to everybody as they leak in short order

3- to have the people who think releasing models is a bad thing simply not release them and work alone in their proprietary solutions, as the smaller companies and hobbyists do collaborate

i say let them have a go at number 3 and see how that works for them - shades of "Microsoft Network" vs Internet all over again