alt Hacker News> Compounding the problem, labs in China often release dual-use capable models as open-weight. Once a model is open-weight, safeguards that do exist can be removed, making the model available to any state or non-state actor to use for malicious purposes, including the cyber and CBRN misuse those safeguards were built to prevent.
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ddxv • today at 2:18 AM
Anthropic wants to ban people using AI. Their moat is going to be using government to gatekeep free and open source AI models.
smallmancontrov • yesterday at 7:50 PM
> cyber misuse
He who controls the porn controls the universe. - Baron Amodei
I loathe Anthropic. many companies don't contribute to open-source, but for one to be actively hostile to open-source, to the degree they're lobbying the government to ban it, is uniquely evil. at least these gatekeepers call themselves what they are.
scraping CoT won't stop the advance of Chinese models. neither will a US "ban" on using such models. at this point I'm cheering for DeepSeek or Qwen to catch up to Anthropic. I support anyone who releases open weights.