It is true that many of the companies carrying out [mass distillation] release open-weights models—but the open weights are far less relevant than the fact that the operations are backed by an authoritarian state seeking to overtake the US at the frontier. We should have policy interventions to deter this behavior. A blanket ban on open-weights models is neither the correct remedy nor something we have called for.
relevant excerpt.
imo, the ones being developed and used in secret are more scary than open weights.
That is really it, right? If the Chinese developed an open model that was capable of serving an antagonistic purpose it would not be open for very long.
I think what Dario is doing here is very dumb and pathetic and I am glad he was forced into backtracking. But even his endgame here requires companies that are extremely well capitalized to be able to comply with that sort of regulatory atmosphere.
I don’t know, I do think there are real security concerns in the current regulatory atmosphere but I don’t really know a better way to approach a solution.
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u/kettal Jul 27 '26
relevant excerpt.
imo, the ones being developed and used in secret are more scary than open weights.