Against Open Source AI Hysteria: Diffuse Benefits Outweigh Acute Harms
typewriters · x · 2026-07-31
The post criticizes the current hysteria against openness (including open source, open weights, open data, and the open web). The author points out that this hysteria tends to focus on limited acute harms while ignoring the massive, diffuse benefits of openness, and that describing the beneficiaries of openness as condescendingly as "bored 19-year-olds" is deeply flawed.
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