I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here.

please argue. please do not remove.

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    8 months ago

    Agreed. I would also argue that trained model weights are not copyrightable.

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      8 months ago

      They aren’t.

      Courts have already ruled that copyright requires human creation, and weights are not decided by humans but by the training algorithms.

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        8 months ago

        I didn’t know it was already settled law. But in that case, why are models like llama still released under licenses? If they are non-copyrightable, licenses should be unenforceable and therefore irrelevant.