e/acc Founder Beff Jezos Blasts Open-Source AI Bans as 'Pure Evil Disguised as Safety'
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
beffjezos (e/acc founder Guillaume Verdon) posted that regulators want to ban open source and citizens' ability to own and control their own AI hardware and weights, calling it "pure evil disguised as beneficial for your safety."
The quoted discussion notes that such fear rests on a self-replicating virus scenario — assuming a local AI model is installed on every machine — which implies the concern is really about models no more capable than ChatGPT 3.5.
A representative statement in the ongoing open-source vs. safety-regulation debate.
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