will there ever be a way to fully audit american models? hell, at least they're releasing the weights for these so they actually could be audited!

Audit them for what, exactly?

Backdoor hardware is straightforward -- its letting people in that the customer doesn't authorize.

Open weights means you aren't tied to any harnessing. So the security domain to be really concerned about is limited to weights only, and I welcome pushback on that.

Are we thinking adversarial injection? Lying about history / propaganda infusion? What is the angle that makes a non-sovereign model dangerous in a way a sovereign model isn't?