Banning open models would make us the chickens of 1-2 frontier labs, researcher warns
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-13
Yuchen Jin argues that banning open-source models would be the worst outcome of "pacing the frontier," citing Geohot's chicken-farm analogy: if 1-2 labs control all intelligence, we're the livestock. Broad access to similarly capable models keeps power balanced — Hugging Face's pivot to open models against OpenAI being a case in point.
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