alt Hacker NewsAnd don't forget the amazing workaround Zimmerman of PGP fame came up with - the source code in printed form was protected 1A speech, so it was published, distributed, and then scanned and OCR'd outside the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
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I hope this time we finally get a Supreme Court ruling that export controls on code are unconstitutional, instead of the feds chickening out like last time
I doubt that would work for model weights because they are generated algorithmically rather than being written by humans, which probably means that they are not speech.
I for one would love to see model weights published in hardcover book form.
It might be somewhat prohibitive to print the model weights for any sufficiently large model, though.
And don’t forget Thawte which ended up selling strong SSL outside the US, cornering the international market thanks to US restrictions, and getting bought by Verisign for $600M.