The OpenAI/Huggingface scenario proves the necessity of open models.

Huggingface, in their postmortem, explained how they quickly realized that the threat was an advanced AI and proceeded to use frontier models to analyze the suspect telemetry, but were unable to due to frontier model safeguards. So they fired up GLM instead, which had no such safeguards and proceeded to analyze their telemetry just fine and get to root cause. This proves without a doubt that companies need models with minimal safeguards in order to properly assess threats. If open weight AI doesn't exist to check out-of-control frontier AI (which was exactly the scenario that Huggingface experienced), then it's game-over.

That is so true. These models need to be democratized. The chinese are doing that because its beneficial for them in second place. The americans are trying to stop it because its detrimental for them in first place. Simple incentive allignment

The critical thing is that the american elites have screwed over normal americans so much that the public isnt alligned with them. The public doesnt feel like its in first place, because it feels like its (and is being told it will be) an underclass. So normal americans feel in the same second place as the chinese and are inadvertently alligning with them. Its crazy how badly the american elites managed to fuck this up