philjohn a day ago

And 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...

  • mmaunder a day ago

    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.

  • rangestransform a day ago

    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

  • tzs a day ago

    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.

    • mbil 18 hours ago

      Not to mention how much paper it would take to print 500B weights

  • z2 a day ago

    I for one would love to see model weights published in hardcover book form.

    • dkga a day ago

      What a throwback to the time when some edgy folks would share printed codes in Pascal… I even remember seeing a hard copy of a binary in hex which was best not to execute.

  • cheald a day ago

    It might be somewhat prohibitive to print the model weights for any sufficiently large model, though.

    • galangalalgol a day ago

      Using 2d barcodes you can fit ~20MB per page. Front and back you could probably fit a model that violated the rule on less than a thousand pages.

      Edit: maybe 10k pages

      • TeMPOraL a day ago

        Skip the barcodes - just cast it to 24bit RGB data, add in some error correction, and print as a high-DPI bitmap (or a series of them, one per page).

      • layer8 a day ago

        I’m doubtful that barcodes would qualify as free speech.

    • slt2021 a day ago

      how about printing URL to download the weights file?

kube-system a day ago

It hampered the security of a lot of things. That wasn't misguided -- that was the point.

China, Russia, and Iran used Internet Explorer too.