[Kim_Bruning]

> The most compelling argument would be [...] that it will reduce cases of accidents like the recent attack on Hugging Face.

So in the example provided: It was the closed model that did the attack, and they ended up using a self-hosted open model for their defense work. So the real world situation ended up exactly backwards from what you are inferring.

This was complicated by the fact that the protections in the closed frontier models meant that hugging face was denied their use in defense entirely.

This is called asymmetric capability, and it's probably the bigger threat.

Symmetric might be better: A rising tide lifts all ships, after all.

I'll grant that this is starting to look a lot like debates about (equal access to) guns, encryption, vaccination, genetics etc. The exact parameters determine the safest approach, and reasonable people may disagree.