Three thoughts: a) I agree with you that the author lacks a basic understanding, and that they do not solve the problem. Yet: b) I think there actually might

Three thoughts: a) I agree with you that the author lacks a basic understanding, and that they do not solve the problem. Yet: b) I think there actually might be a positive outcome for several reasons, including innovation, marketing and ethics, if one is to allow trained model to be queried arbitrarily. At least in the general case. (Think what is happening with stable diffusion and LLMs/LMMs.) Recommendation systems of say Youtube might be more useful to people making videos -- essentially somehow create a pre-query system before one finishes a video. c) As a couple others have noted, the Tesla example is not a good one. I understand it was formed in haste and I think we all can understand your reasoning. My thought though is: There is a) the right of repair -- yes still being fought for -- and b) the full self driving ability that might actually demand open sourcing code and models. How else do we envision the Courts and Congress to formulate liability and empower related LE, and rights groups investigations? Recall that the aviation industry achieved the "FSD" mode by building the infrastructure, extreme reliability (space and aviation started byzantine systems) and definitely not black box. P.S. As a personal note: I will never allow something to drive me, if I have any liability, especially if it is a limited "black box" that I can not even arbitrarily query. Right now we are "cruising" along because liability is with the driver. Tesla and the auto industry will need to face that pill, if they ever achieve their goal. I think they will achieve it personally.