Open source model, created at great expense… by a still small cohort of people. There are like a dozen organizations globally creating anything close to state

Open source model, created at great expense… by a still small cohort of people. There are like a dozen organizations globally creating anything close to state of the art models. The fact that you can use some for free on your own hardware doesn’t change that those weights were trained by a small cohort of people, with training data selected by those people, and fine-tuning and “alignment” created by those people. Sure you can fine-tune the smaller ones yourself, but that still leaves you at the will of original creator.