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White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping. (forkast.news)
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[–] [S] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

This feels like regulators preparing for the last AI race instead of the next one. If open weight AI keeps improving outside the biggest labs, excluding them from review may reduce paperwork without reducing risk. Policy that only slows one side rarely stays effective for long.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The federal government has a vested interest in promoting open-weight AI. Closed AI ecosystems can limit how the government can use them.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago

    Exactly! A government that depends entirely on proprietary AI is ultimately dependent on a handful of private companies. Open weight models offer more flexibility: agencies can self host, audit, modify and switch providers without being locked into a single vendor. That’s a strategic advantage, not just a technical preference.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    The other issue is enforcement. If somebody releases a weights table on the web publicly, by the time the government can review it thousands of people could of seen it and saved a copy of it. You can track down the first person and say take it down but you can't track down everyone. It's like the dvd encryption number from the early 2000s. Why waste the resources?

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