Open-weight AI bans won’t stop misuse, only push it outside regulation
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-27
The post argues that banning people from using open-weight models will not make them disappear.
It adds that people willing to use such models for harmful ends would likely also be willing to violate regulations, while a quoted prediction says open-weights AI will eventually prove dangerous and be used for bad ends.
Related event: Open-Weight AI Abuse Sparks Debate Over Bans(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Current AI still fails at long agent loops, and the next leap may come with GPT-7 and Fable-7 — bindureddy · 2026-07-27
- Gary Marcus says intelligence is not nature versus nurture, but both — BobThibadeau · 2026-07-27
- OpenAI may not open GPT-6, but the community can still approximate it in the aggregate — teortaxesTex · 2026-07-27
- Alexandr Wang says the AI bottleneck is adaptation, not model quality — ycombinator · 2026-07-27
- A 1951 mechanical tortoise is being used to explain today’s LLM scaling walls — mtizard · 2026-07-27
- A new San Francisco AI canon lists 10 books from Vinge to Ted Chiang — surmenok · 2026-07-27