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Comment by The Economist
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True, open-source models can be abused, like any other tech. But such thinking puts too much weight on the dangers of open-source AI and too little on the benefits.AI Verified source (Nov 7, 2024)
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AI Verified
A licensed Mint reprint of the same Economist leader contains the sentence verbatim and attributes the piece to “The Economist.” A calibre-exported copy of the November 7, 2024 Economist issue also shows the exact wording in “Why open-source AI models are good for the world” and notes it was downloaded from the cited Economist URL. ([livemint.com](https://www.livemint.com/ai/why-open-source-ai-models-are-good-for-the-world-11736226935984.html))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
Disputed
LiveMint’s 7 Jan 2025 licensed republication credits The Economist and prints: “True, open-source models can be abused, like any other tech. But such thinking …”. The submitted version omits “like any other tech” and changes the punctuation, so the attribution is right but the quote is not verbatim as given. ([livemint.com](https://www.livemint.com/ai/why-open-source-ai-models-are-good-for-the-world-11736226935984.html))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
AI Unverifiable
Cannot verify the exact quote wording. Livemint blocks WebFetch ('Claude Code is unable to fetch from www.livemint.com'). Confirmed via independent sources that The Economist published an article titled 'Why open-source AI models are good for the world' (LinkedIn post by The Economist with that exact title from late 2024), republished on Livemint in January 2025 (URL ID 11736226935984 corresponds to that date). The article's argument matches the quote tone, and the 'against' vote on 'Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI' is correctly aligned. However, I could not positively verify the exact direct-quote text via search, and the primary source is blocked.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to The Economist