Nicolas Pinto

The sustained info war assault on open models is an agenda driven, self sabotage for our society. The PHP vulnerabilities were found by Sol 5.6 as part of a defensive audit, for example, not abliterated models. Putting our head in the sand and pretending vulnerabilities do not exist is idiotic. Better we find all these old, human written mistakes and fix them with AI. If you have a pair of magic glasses that show you what buildings will fall down the answer is to fix the buildings, not smash the glasses. When HuggingFace was under attack and when OpenCode was under attack they needed open models to defend them because closed models refused. Eventually OpenCode, because they're a prominent project, were granted access to OpenAI Daybreak Blue. Many individual researchers get denied with obscure errors and no explanation. To be clear, DayBreak is a fantastic project, and OpenAI is doing their best to be responsible here, but not everyone gets access and everyone has a right to defend themselves. Nobody should have to beg for permission to defend themselves from cyber assault. When you're under attack, waiting to see if you get granted access to defend yourself via a black box KYC process is how we end up helpless, watching as our shop burns while raging looters storm it and destroy our life's work. AI can be used for attack and defense and many of the recent attacks used both open and closed models, by the lab's own admissions. Open models are often the only thing standing between us and the new reality of cyber assault. If we ban them or restrict them in the US, then US companies will just be defenseless against global cyber assault actors who are not going to respect those bans.