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> OpenAI's Dean Ball:

> One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism...

This quote proves me that there are no rational arguments here. It’s just Cold War era mentality. This is the first time US is really challenged in technological dominance since the Soviets. Sadly this seems like the only playbook Americans still use. This is their modus operandi. This is how they handle competition and they haven’t updated their playbook since 80s.

There is nothing necessarily malicious about open weight models. Being “Chinese” is the real thing which makes them “malicious”.

It seems public still buys this rhetoric. And leaders and policy makers still use it because they don’t know any better. But I have to say outside US it makes no sense in 2026’s world.