Comment by Arthur Mensch

But today, going, banning open source, preventing it from happening is really a way, well, to enforce regulatory capture, even though the actors that would benefit from it don’t want it to happen. […] If you actually ban small actors from doing things, in the most efficient way, which is open source, you do facilitate the life of the larger incumbents. If you train your model on generating… there’s a focus on bio-weapon. So let’s say if we want to prevent models from generating chemical compounds, because we think it’s an enabler of bad behaviors, which I have said, we don’t think it is the case. […] Nothing was observed. No scientific studies in proper form was published. […] And all of a sudden you end up with like 50 papers saying that for sure, bioweapon is going to blow us up. AI Verified source (2023)