points by eunos 2 days ago | 0 comments
Seems specific legislations on European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea made it hostile to Open weights model, I think I have seen other models with similar exclusion
[–] ricardobeat 2 days ago
[–] Kbelicius 2 days ago
> 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.
[–] londons_explore 2 days ago
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.
[–] imachine1980_ 2 days ago
you dont put exceptions in regulatory capture
[–] halJordan 2 days ago
What are you talking about. This site went absolutely batshit that "muh ai com'pnies are stealing everything, punish them!" And celebrated these anti ai laws
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.