Some AI policy proposals would have effectively banned open-weight models
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-07-23
The author says many people once assumed banning open-source models would be necessary, backed regulations that could have effectively banned open-weight models, and brushed aside warnings that such rules would damage the open-source ecosystem.
It is a reminder that the policy debate around open models was not hypothetical: some proposals were explicitly moving toward restrictions that would have hit the open-source stack hard.
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