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by NeutralCrane 35 days ago
IP law is a farce, and the open source licenses are built upon that farce. If a single good thing comes out of LLMs, it will be forcing society to recognize “intellectual property” for the dystopic stupidity that it is. I doubt it though.
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That is a pipe dream. The current direction is the opposite of that - knowledge becomes even more centralized and only rented out to individuals.
Knowledge being rented out to individuals is the status quo. Already there are court rulings dictating that “training” on data is legal, but model weights also are non-copyrightable, which seems like a step in the direction of sanity.