alt Hacker NewsAnd even that is backfiring, their partner citing GLM being useful there, and available in just a spin.
A ban on open weight models is never going to be enforceable.
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Bans in general don't have to be and rarely will be completely enforceable in all cases. But a ban with significant enough consequences would mean most businesses wouldn't think about trying them at some point, just to avoid the risk.
I worry that there could be real DMCA style weight put behind it. People would still be able to pirate open weights models perhaps, but big penalties for ever getting caught with one, and an end to public discussion about them. That would kill development for anyone not in a big firm, for example if Reddit and Hacker News are legally forced to ban discussions or link sharing on these topics. This is where so many of us learn about these topics and keep apace of it.
> A ban on open weight models is never going to be enforceable.
Just watch them try. Look up those Napster witch-burning trials where they wanted 200k $usd per mp3 downloaded. They will scare everyone into believing that open weight models are illegal and very bad.