"[M]odel weights are not generally used to express ideas among individuals but, rather, serve primarily as instructions to order machines to act." @arozenshtein.bsky.social pushes back on the argument that model weights for AI are protected by the First Amendment.

There Is No General First Amendment Right to Distribute Machine-Learning Model Weights

Unlike source code, which humans use to express ideas to each other, model weights function primarily as machine-readable instructions.