I liked reading this article because it is almost 100% THE OPPOSITE of my viewpoint. It is healthy reading well written and well thought out arguments contrary

I liked reading this article because it is almost 100% THE OPPOSITE of my viewpoint. It is healthy reading well written and well thought out arguments contrary to our own beliefs. Where I think the author goes very much wrong is not in pointing out the dangers of open models, but rather ignoring the huge positive potential benefits to society of open systems. I think Mistral is one example of thoughtful release of open model weights. Mistral-7B and mixtral-8-7B may be black boxes, but they are also powerful and useful engineering tools for building a huge range of useful and interesting applications without relying on big tech. Obviously, Hugging Face, Meta, and other companies are also making important contributions. I think it is important to evaluate potential gains along with potential risks.