Comment by cobbzilla
3 days ago
How do you do that without banning the model itself.
It doesn't matter who can or can't run it.
They are trying to ban something that can be represented entirely by a sequence of bytes. An illegal number, like the DeCSS key.
The fact that money is involved does not change the free speech aspects. This isn't CSAM or torture porn. It's data.
It's not the model weights people are panicking over losing access to though. It's the compute.
If you mean being forced to overpay for no-longer-SOTA closed models, that’s I guess the protectionist motive here: impossible to enforce, enforcement uneven and political, illegality rampant, I suppose all by design too. I’d say it’s brilliant if it weren’t so evil. I have hope saner minds will prevail.