There was a little spontaneous outbreak of joy in the GLM vs Opus thread about GLM's willingness/ability to say what it's seeing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628464

In further reflection it is such a great indignity & such a collosal barrier to working with the machine that it insists on being a black box. The disingenuity of the American models (small print: except AI2 & some other labs; you all are so great) is a massive disadvantage to their use,... and a massive slap in the face.

It's a threat to human intelligence that it is not co-participative. Walking further into my own judgement and feelings: the insistence on being an opaque black box, the Seals Chinese Room, is such a vicious harm to society! This is civilizationally an unsafe form of AI that probably should be outlawed as anti-social. It's an impermissible asymmetry, a crippling dependent relationship to be forced into. I'm working myself up, but here: this.. imo, this is not just indignity, is harmful, it is evil.

This "6 month behind" trend we've seen for open models feels like at some point will be less important than simply the models unwillingness to speak for itself & to be observable.