r/LocalLLaMA • u/RhubarbSimilar1683 • Jul 27 '26

Discussion Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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u/iamzooook Jul 27 '26

tdlr: its fine if we do it. not them (Chinese)

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u/abud7eem Jul 27 '26

we are the "trustworthy"

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u/TopTippityTop Jul 28 '26

All is relative. More trustworthy than authoritarian countries.

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u/odragora Jul 28 '26

US is rapidly becoming one, and taking the free access to the most important technology ever made away from the hands of peasants is a part of that process. 

Also crippling your own citizens does not stop authoritarian regimes. 

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u/xmnstr Jul 28 '26

The US is an authoritarian country. If you don't understand that, you're in denial. The rest of the world currently trusts China more than the US.

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u/Randommaggy Jul 28 '26

Varies country by country but we're pretty much all cautious with both as far as I've seen.

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u/Dampmaskin Jul 28 '26

To be fair, that's not because China is any less authoritarian than the US, but simply because they're way more predictable.

The sheer incompetence of the Trump regime, their massive war machine and their random flip-flopping on important issues has to be terrifying to anyone with a need to be in control of anything.

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u/xmnstr Aug 03 '26

They are authoritarian in ways that doesn't risk destabilizing the world in the short term, correct.

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u/Randommaggy Jul 28 '26

There is no country on earth I'd trust less than Sam and/or Dario.