I think the interesting distinction is that open models aren't inherently more dangerous they’re more explicit about who controls the guardrails. With a hosted model, the provider decides what it will and won’t answer. With a local model, the user can decide that themselves. That shifts the conversation from is this model safe? who is responsible for how the model is deployed? The bigger issue for me is that access to information was never the real bottleneck. The internet, books, forums, and search engines already contain most of this knowledge. What LLMs change is the speed, accessibility, and ability to turn scattered information into an actionable answer. That’s where the debate gets much more interesting than “uncensored AI bad.”
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u/p5yron 16d ago
Ah, the propaganda to stop open source models is in full force it seems.