1a3orn counters open-source skepticism with four overlooked benefits
1a3orn · x · 2026-09-15
Responding to tenobrus's thread arguing open models lead only to power concentration, 1a3orn says the argument ignores four benefits of open source: better alignment science, better common knowledge of model behavior, less rent extraction, and making surveillance over model use harder.
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