Hot take: hating open-source AI models is asking for fewer people to access intelligence
taherdhanera · x · 2026-10-03
A short opinion post argues that people who hate open-source AI models are essentially asking for fewer people to have access to intelligence, framing open weights as democratizing AI capability.
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