Expect more open-source fearmongering from AI labs — and most of it will be wrong
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-21
- @himanshustwts notes a growing consensus against open source in AI, with incentives now aligned across model labs and downstream companies.
- His prediction: expect much more fearmongering around open source, much of it dressed up as inevitability or safety.
- Most of those claims, he argues, will turn out to be wrong. teortaxesTex echoed he hopes that read is correct.
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