[logicchains]

>If NN weights aren't protected by IP law that could slow down progress quite a lot.

What do you mean? IP law is overwhelmingly an impediment to progress; innovation happens faster when people are free to build on existing weights.

[kybernetikos]

Yes, but there's less incentive for large companies to spend huge amounts of money training these systems when other companies can just take their work for free.

Removing IP protection would make it a lot easier to innovate at this level, but it would reduce the amount of money flowing into getting us to the next level.

[pmoriarty]

Or development could shift out of the hands of these large corporations, which might be a good thing.

Somehow, though, I doubt they'll let the golden goose slip through their fingers, no matter what happens.

[wkat4242]

Not really. This model only made it to the public because meta was offering it publicly.

This won't happen to GPT any time soon so they are safe, copyright or not.