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Sayrusyesterday at 11:06 AM4 repliesview on HN

The torrents you are talking about are outlawed. Whether enforcement is working or not is another issue.


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roenxiyesterday at 1:45 PM

Torrents are legal until someone, at great expense and difficulty, proves otherwise (even then, jurisdiction and content dependent). At which point everyone involved will ignore the fact and carry on. That is a situation with enormous will, lots of money and ongoing enforcement effort to suppress the things.

And compared to torrents abliterated models are more complicated to identify, harder to suppress and there is a lot less reason for anyone to care.

galangalalgolyesterday at 12:19 PM

I think that was the point being made? Outlawing something does nothing if enforcement is not feasible. The music and movie industries didn't crush torrents, they switched business models to streaming with prices being determined mostly by how much hassle was avoided by skipping the torrents.

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RIMRyesterday at 2:37 PM

Maybe it would be easiest for everyone if you clarified what country you live in, because abliterated LLM torrents are not "outlawed" in any of the major Internet-using countries that I am aware of.

quotemstryesterday at 12:43 PM

Outlawed? Only in safetyist dreams