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Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by clickety_clack on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:49AM (#48672571)
4) Make it illegal to use anything but regulated models.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by forshaper on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:26PM (#48678078)
a: If making it illegal fails, make it a Federal procurement requirement to use regulated models. Come up with an audit standard that only fits regulated models. Watch the preference trickle down.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by rectang on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:51PM (#48679027)
License the training corpus and encourage copyright suits against outputs from models trained on unlicensed corpora.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by amanaplanacanal on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:03AM (#48684666)
This won't work if the courts decide that training is fair use, which certainly seems the direction they are going.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by rectang on Friday June 26, 2026 @07:46AM (#48685517)
Output is a separate issue from training. Courts will never decide that a identical copy spit out by an LLM is non-infringing simply because it went through an LLM stage. Copyright laundering is wishful thinking by tech folks.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by julosflb on Friday June 26, 2026 @02:29PM (#48690194)
I like to think of llms as seamless plagiarism machines.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by vlian2088 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @05:11PM (#48679261)
pretty much what altman and amodei mean when they say 'safety'.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by dada216 on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:00AM (#48684176)
Then they will leave the huge advantage in cost to the competition, I mean their customers competitors. Hard to fathom how US companies will not want to use the cheaper option when EU and Asian companies can.
Re:The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models by stackedinserter on Friday June 26, 2026 @10:53AM (#48687366)
Why illegal, just pass these 3000 pages FAA-level certification, export controls and KYC. We're free country, after all!