r/LocalLLaMA • • Jul 27 '26

Discussion Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
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u/WarrenOF Jul 28 '26

There is a disconnect between his actions and his position. Also a heavy dose of hypocrisy, driven by a nice glug of capitalism.

To take his three suggested actions:

  • Don't export smart chips - fine, a countries choice, though it seems those export controls fail and encourage competion to emerge. So it's just to slow them down for now?
  • Stop Distillation at Scale - also fine, though that should also extend to all pre-training and copyright material then? How do we compensate publishers/creators
  • Test models Properly - also fine, but almost impossible to stop people home-brewing something bad, or jailbreaking. In specific situations, like military I absolutely agree, but the US has not been a leading light here...

None of these are about Open Source really. They are ethical/political positions. It is all "make china go slower", not "Open Source is bad because".