Comment by rvz

Of course. Except we know what happens when one tries to close them up again - someone else will release another more powerful AI model for free.

So it doesn't matter when there are multiple players competing to destroy each others in this race to zero.

> But I think it’d be a mistake to think that this is necessarily beneficial for humanity just because the weights are open. It’s maybe great to commoditize models, but their displacement in jobs, original thought and work, facilitation of disinformation and population psychological warfare doesn’t change… if anything it’s accelerated and harder to temper the bad elements.

It is unrealistic to close it up and hope that no-one catches up and releases a better AI model for free since the cat's already out of the bag and the progress of these AI models cannot be delayed, stopped or gate-kept for long.

By that time, someone will release a more powerful AI model for free.