Banning open-source models would be the worst possible outcome of “pacing the frontier.”

Geohot once made a compelling point: why can one man control an entire chicken farm?

Because he’s smarter than the chickens.

If 1 or 2 frontier AI labs control all the intelligence, we’re the chickens and they’re the farmers.

But if we all have access to similarly capable models, then we’re all just chickens.

(Hugging Face turning to open models to defend against an OpenAI model attack was an example of why that matters.)