Open weights are quietly closing up – and that's a problem

This is the genuine article.

I feel as if open weight models are equivalent to open source software. They might be better, they might be worse. They are frequently "worse" in many terms, but at least we, the user, know what is going on.

There is no telling what weird analysis and exfiltration is going on in a closed source/closed weight model, or what's been censored/deleted/disabled from what otherwise could have been possible.

Open weight models will continue to exist for exactly as long as open source software continues to exist which is likely to be exactly as long as software in general continues to exist.