Open source is the only way to develop AI in a way manner

Reddit r/singularity 09/13/26, 06:40 AM News

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Summary

The article argues that open-source AI development is the only safe way to ensure accountability and prevent centralized control, democratizing tools for global security.

While closed-source opanai and anthropic advocate for centralized control under the guise of safety, history shows that security through obscurity inevitably fails. Open-source democratizes accountability, ensuring that humanity's future is not controlled by a handful of tech executives. Open-source AI ensures safety by giving global defenders the exact same powerful tools as attackers, allowing them to proactively expose and patch system vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. Also, open source models make enshitification very hard for openai and anthropic because people would immediately switch. Of course open source models will be used by bad actors for attacks, but that is exactly what we wanr. Since the intelligence is democratized, the process will be gradual, which is the only safe way to develop AI. Edit: *in a safe manner

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