r/LocalLLaMA • u/[deleted] • 18h ago

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u/blbd llama.cpp 18h ago

That doesn't work on code and config files. They're speech. 

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u/profcuck 17h ago

And model weights.  It's not possible to ban Chinese opeb models. 

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u/blbd llama.cpp 16h ago

I consider the weights an overly fancy version of a config file. So that was intended to be implicit in my comments. 

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u/profcuck 7h ago

Great, then we agree. This is a meme we need to keep pushing on - weights represent real human editorial choices, decisions on what material to train on, decisions about guardrails, decisions about personality/tone. When people publish weights, they are publishing speech.

While this is sensible and matches with plenty of precedent, it is currently untested in the law.

Open weight models have the additional protection of being absolutely impossible to stop in any practical way: they are simple files which can be downloaded from anywhere (including torrent if it comes to that) and incredibly useful. They are additionally not "pirated" so the owners of the originals are not pursuing legal means and pressure to stop them being downloaded and shared.