Open-weights advocates slam frontier safety rules as a moat taxing everyone but Anthropic
ayushtweetshere · x · 2026-09-13
Echoing @OpenMedFuture, the author argues frontier labs pacing capabilities after shipping is a moat, not caution: embedded evaluators and compute limits are easy for Anthropic—poised for IPO—but tax everyone else. Open weights get policed as leakage despite being the only mechanism letting thousands inspect models. China won't embed METR-style evals and distillation/chip controls won't freeze its training runs; slowing closed Western labs while locking weights only concentrates power.
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