Open source strikes me as something like nuclear surveillance. If everything’s out in the open, there’s much less of an incentive to rush ahead blindly out of fear that there’s a secret bomber gap. It also has nice externalities in that it mitigates power concentration from e.g. censorship and denial of access for smaller models, while larger models are sufficiently expensive and technically intensive to run that anyone who could run them for malicious purposes has easier ways to cause harm anyhow.
Open source strikes me as something like nuclear surveillance. If everything’s out in the open, there’s much less of an incentive to rush ahead blindly out of fear that there’s a secret bomber gap. It also has nice externalities in that it mitigates power concentration from e.g. censorship and denial of access for smaller models, while larger models are sufficiently expensive and technically intensive to run that anyone who could run them for malicious purposes has easier ways to cause harm anyhow.