A fixed seed makes a best effort, not a guarantee. Acceptance shifts from exact output to declared task properties, a predeclared sampling rule, and uncertainty measured at the unit actually sampled.
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Six engagement models fix four independent variables — who directs the work, how price is set, who owns continuing operation, and what transfers at the end. A label pins one and leaves three open.
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Source escrow assumes the artifact is the source. Where behaviour depends on a hosted model the provider retires, the deposited package no longer reproduces the system.
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Owning the copyright is not holding the file, and holding the file is not being able to run the system. Calling a contract work made for hire does not make it one.
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Which obligations survive handover, which insurance responds to a model's output, and why detection after transfer establishes nothing about when the defect arose.
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Termination for convenience is a settlement mechanism, not a free exit. And staff are participants with rights, not artifacts that transfer with the repository.
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Indexes, embeddings, logs and fine-tuning corpora are created during the engagement and left out of the contract that governs it. Possession, ownership, licensed use and portability are four separate answers.
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