Ask HN: AI models are built on all of us, should their weights act like patents? (opens in new tab)

These models are basically a compression of everything we already made. Our books, our code, every stack overflow answer, the dumb forum arguments we had at 2am. The companies creating these models didn't create that knowledge, they scraped it and compressed it, and what comes back out is mostly our own collective output re-encoded and handed back to us. The work is expensive and valuable, so I don't mean to diminish that, but exclusivity on this seems completely unfair. These organizations a...