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many have celebrated recent court decisions stating that model weights do not contain copies of training data. unfortunately for them, this is trivially false.

even when ai models avoid verbatim copying, they create functional substitutes that harm markets. this substitution capability defeats fair use defenses under factor 4 analysis.

a new home (and purpose) for twenty five years of content.

In math and physics, we have a way of looking at the world through "forward" and "inverse" problems. The gist of the idea is that there are two different ways to think about a model — and while they seem similar, solving them is very different.