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0 pointsRobotToaster3y ago0 comments

IANAL, but I imagine it's a legal grey area if the weights can be copyrighted? Works produced by purely mechanical means don't normally meet the threshold of originality.

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colinmorelli3y ago· 4 in thread

I am quite confident that using this model for commercial purposes will, if detected, land you in quite a legal quagmire that almost certainly sides in favor of Meta.

And even if it did not, Meta certainly has a more capable legal team with more cash to spend than the average HN user.

cma3y ago

I don't think weights can be copyrighted (unless overfit on your own other copywritten work), and I don't think weights shared broadly with the research community can be considered trade secrets. And even if they were trade secrets despite the wide sharing, only the people that leaked them could get into trouble, right? They aren't trade secrets anymore once you didn't keep them secret and they are out on torrents.

basch3y ago

Has any photo or art ever been found to have been illegal due to pirated photoshop?

retinaros3y ago

didnt they train this on copyrighted content?

They might have trained it on everyone's DMs.

londons_explore3y ago

and, copyright rarely bites if you use something without publishing/redistributing it.

It would be like playing copyrighted music in your office without permission. Perhaps technically illegal, but your customers will never know what music your Devs were listening to...

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