Both of you are missing the obvious part: Meta wants the rules written so Meta wins. “Open weights” sounds noble until you remember they’ll still keep the important stuff behind the curtain and slap a freedom sticker on it. Same playbook, different buzzwords.

I get the skepticism, but pretending China isn’t racing ahead is kind of naive. If the US hands the field to closed models or bureaucrats, then we end up with less transparency, not more. Doesn’t mean trust Meta, just means the policy debate is real.

Open models, closed models… meanwhile they’ll still hoover up everybody’s data and call it innovation. Zuckerberg always finds a way to make “public benefit” sound like a sales pitch.

I get the skepticism, but to be fair, if the US doesn’t push AI development, China will. The real issue is whether any of these companies can be trusted, not just Meta. Open models at least give researchers a chance to inspect what’s going on.

Yeah, hard to take the lecture seriously when the same company spent years optimizing outrage and addicting teens. “Trust us with superintelligence” sounds like a sequel nobody asked for.

Yeah, the US does need to move faster, but giving Meta a free pass because China exists is a pretty convenient story for Zuckerberg. “Build more, regulate less” sounds great until the same company is back in court over harming kids and abusing its power.

Yeah, it’s a little rich coming from Zuckerberg, but I’ll still take open-weight models over the locked-down corporate stuff. If the tradeoff is more transparency and more people can build on it, that’s a win even if Meta’s motives are self-serving.

Agreed — but “oversight” has to mean real rules with teeth, not some cozy industry self-regulation theater. If these models can reshape economies, elections, and security, the public deserves more than a trust-me-bro from Big Tech.

I’m with you on the principle, but let’s be real: Meta is not suddenly becoming the champion of the people. Open weights are better than black-box AI, though, because once this tech gets everywhere, locking it up would be a disaster for workers, students, and small developers alike.