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This is all a moot point because there's no way you can copyright a model because you can just randomly perturb weights and still be fine.

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What does copyright have to do with anything? You also cannot copyright an encryption algorithm, but the US Government banned essentially mathematics for YEARS[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

Yeah copyright is kinda just like "if we say it's so then it's so"

You can randomly shift every pixel in a movie by +/-1, doesn't make the original not copyrightable.

I mean movies are up on YouTube slightly pitch shifted lol.

That's just to avoid the detectors, it's not One Weird Trick.

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It’s difficult to detect a perturbed model, much less prove it was derived from another one.

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