> The AI Act Article 53 requires anyone who places a general-purpose model on the EU market to keep technical documentation, give information to downstream developers, adopt a copyright compliance policy, and draw up and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for training the model.

Sounds like a pretty good reason. Maybe there should have be exemptions for open-weight models?

"Giving information to downstream developers" and a "copyright compliance policy" could get pretty expensive quickly.

you dont put exceptions in regulatory capture

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> Sounds like a pretty good reason. Maybe there should have be exemptions for open-weight models?

Article 2.12: "This Regulation does not apply to AI systems released under free and open-source licences, unless they are placed on the market or put into service as high-risk AI systems or as an AI system that falls under Article 5 or 50."

So there is some exemption.

When you're the engineer responsible for releasing an AI model at baidu, and one checklist item is 'check for local laws and either exclude that country or get a local lawyer to check for compliance', it is probably easier to just exclude any country with specific AI laws than to hire 200+ lawyers to meet every countries laws.

This applies even more so when revenue from the model release is likely nil. You will get the academic fame and PR no matter what the licence says.