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Comment by Kate O’Flaherty

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Cybersecurity and privacy journalist and writer
But despite the benefits, they can also pose a major risk. AI Verified source (2025)
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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI

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AI Verified Verified via web search (URL returns 403 to WebFetch). The article 'The risks of open source AI models' by Kate O'Flaherty exists on IT Pro at the source_url and contains the quoted text ('But despite the benefits, they can also pose a major risk'). Author attribution correct (Kate O'Flaherty is a cybersecurity/privacy journalist for IT Pro, Wired, Forbes, etc.). Year 2025 plausible. Note: the quote itself is a fairly generic transition sentence; the alignment with 'for' on the statement 'Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI' relies on the article's broader framing as a risks-focused piece about open-source AI (DeepSeek R1, Llama). The article does emphasize significant risks (misinformation, bias, cyber-threats) of open-source models specifically, so the 'for' vote is defensible. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2d ago
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