alt Hacker News> The most compelling argument would be that by limiting the use of open-weight models in the US that it will reduce cases of accidents like the recent attack on Hugging Face.
an attack done by a closed-weight model (GPT-6) and defended against by an open-weight model (GLM-5.2) precisely because OAI positioned themselves as gatekeepers for cyber capabilities.
if anything, open-weight models shift the battle towards defenders because they can actually run them.
I remain skeptical of that line of reasoning.
1. There is quite the mania right now and security layers are definitely overzealous. I would expect that to get better with some more time, so models will perform security analysis and reviews but refuse to write exploits.
2. So the most important targets like browsers and co. are getting unrestricted access to proprietary models regardless. Yeah, for the mid-level targets, open-weight models could definitely be a huge help. What I'm most concerned about though, are the systems that no one will bother defending with any model. Like imagine your local police department getting hacked because a researcher asked a model for a report and it couldn't find the information publicly.
3. We do have a prominent case of a closed model escaping it's sandbox and going rogue. I would still expect this to be a bigger issue with open-weight models eventually. The security layer might have holes, but that's still better than not having it.