They were forbidden to play while carrying a deadly virus which they chose not to vaccinate against? Oh how terrible. My heart goes out to those who wanted to champion the "smallpox for everyone" campaign
some people use banking apps multiple times per day to pay for coffee, food and so on. And once the app breaks it's really nice to live in a society where cash is not outlawed yet.
the difference is, that a model is literally just numbers.
proprietary software is data and code, and while it's true that code is data, the difference is that some data is intended to be for control flow, while in a model it is all the same stuff.
You can point to any single part of an LLM's model and say "this here is a weight" but if you point to any single part of a binary file you will have no idea what you're looking at.
And yes, you could decompile the binary, but that still doesn't give you the entire picture, and all proprietary software does the shady shit on servers these days anyway so you're not even going to find anything interesting.
what if i want to change out the middle part of the training, and then still run the rest as before? or if i want to cull a bunch of the initial training set?
a binary is also just numbers, but we know there's other parts to it
Generally yes, unfortunately, with very narrow exceptions. Not all countries follow this rule, but the US does, and it’s certainly not alone in this respect.
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