Aside from the legality of it, I think you are underestimating how complex it can be to do that. It is possible in theory but not something that will be a fun side quest like you are making it seem.

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johncoatesdev 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

With a IDA Pro decompiler license & MCP server, paired with Codex/Claude Code... it would be a fun side quest.

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edude03 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You likely don't need to disassemble the inference code, the weights are "just an array of numbers" in MLX format.

	▲	saagarjha 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I believe they are are protected on disk

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bilbo0s 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This.

The Jedi Hand Wave-y nature of the way people talk about AI these days is going to make reigning in the AI superpowers nearly impossible. Because there are people out here who believe models of this quality are easily replicated or reverse engineered. Neither is really doable on any reasonable timeline by people who are not AI experts. Real AI experts. Not TF/PyTorch monkeys or Agent Slop Slingers.

And those people are already highly incentivized to not make anything performing better than SOTA models open source.

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polycancel 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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