Nobody is copying their model parameters or inference code.
What people “suck out” of their API are the general ideas. And they do it specifically so they can reassemble them in their own way.
It’s like reading all the Jack Reacher novels and then creating your own hero living through similar situations, but with a different name.
You’ll read it and you’ll say, dang, that situation/metaphor/expression/character reminds me of that Reacher novel. But there’s nothing Lee Child can do about it.
And that’s perfectly fine. Because he himself took many of his ideas from others, like Le Carré.
What people “suck out” of their API are the general ideas. And they do it specifically so they can reassemble them in their own way.
It’s like reading all the Jack Reacher novels and then creating your own hero living through similar situations, but with a different name.
You’ll read it and you’ll say, dang, that situation/metaphor/expression/character reminds me of that Reacher novel. But there’s nothing Lee Child can do about it.
And that’s perfectly fine. Because he himself took many of his ideas from others, like Le Carré.
It’s the Eternal Tao.