[xdennis]

They got backlash, but (if I'm not mistaken) it was ruled that it's okay to use copyrighted works in your model.

So if a model is copyrighted, you should still be able to use it if you generate a different one based on it. I.e. copyright laundry. I assume this would be similar to how fonts work. You can copyright a font file, but not the actual shapes. So if you re-encode the shapes with different points, that's legal.

But, I don't think a model can be copyrighted. Isn't it the case that something created mechanically can't be copyrighted? It has to be authored by a person.

I find it weird that so many hackers go out of their way to approve of the legal claims of Big AI before it's even settled, instead of undermining Big AI. Isn't the hacker ethos all about decentralization?