HF's Aymeric Roucher mocks 'pacing the digging': corps inflating Balrog fears to lock up mithril
AymericRoucher · x · 2026-09-13
Hugging Face's Aymeric Roucher mocks the 'pacing the digging' argument with a LOTR analogy: the corporations that have dug deepest find it most convenient to inflate Balrog fears and lock down the mithril — implying safety-driven calls to slow open-source AI are really about entrenching incumbents.
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