I'm with you on that. Many argue that AI models don't "contain the code" but if they are trained on the copyrighted data, and generate something similar, then the AI model is akin to a lossy data compression format.
Frequency signal data over an image are not the image, but no one argues a JPEG encoded copy of a PNG isn't the same image. I think the weights vs code are similar in that regard.
As for releasing weights, probably more if we're talking about AGPL code.
Frequency signal data over an image are not the image, but no one argues a JPEG encoded copy of a PNG isn't the same image. I think the weights vs code are similar in that regard.
As for releasing weights, probably more if we're talking about AGPL code.