Coogan: Stolen AI Model Weights Are Far More Usable Than Web Codebases
John Coogan · John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas · Nov 11, 2024 · at 4:28
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, explains why AI model weights are uniquely vulnerable to theft compared to traditional web application source code.
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“If you stole the code base to Facebook, And you were like, okay, I have all the code to Facebook. I'm going to launch Facebook to.com. Well, you don't have any of the users. People aren't going to your website. It's not valuable, but with the large language model weights, once you get the model, you can run that anywhere. You can stick that anywhere. You can wrap that into your own product. And all of a sudden you're not paying open AI or Anthropic if you're able to steal the weights.”
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