Comment by matthewolfe
3 days ago
For argument's sake, suppose we live in a world where many high-quality models can be run on-device. Is there any concern from companies/model developers about exposing their proprietary weights to the end user? It's generally not difficult to intercept traffic (weights) sent to and app, or just reverse the app itself.
So far, our focus is on supporting models with fully open-sourced weights. Providers who are sensitive about their weights typically lock those weights up in their cloud and don't run their models locally on consumer devices anyway.
I believe there are some frameworks pioneering model encryption, but i think we're a few steps away from wide adoption.
Simple answer is they won't send the model to the end user if they don't want it used outside their app.
This isn't really anything novel to LLMs of AI models. Part of the reason for many previously desktop applications being cloud or requiring cloud access is keeping their sensitive IP off the end users' device.