Yacine: after DeepSeek, open the weights and 'trust in humanity'
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-25
Former OpenAI/Google researcher Yacine MTB argues the dam has already broken with DeepSeek flash 1017 — labs should 'rip the bandaid off' and let everyone take models apart together. His stance: trust humanity and give people tools to defend themselves rather than assuming criminality by default. Igor Carron shared it with the comment 'And they fall...', capturing the mood of shifting open-weights boundaries.
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