I don’t think here is a significant confused naive supporter source of the meme that gives it teeth. It’s more that reasonable people who are not any sort of supporters of AI safety propagate this idea, on the grounds that it illustrates the way AI safety is not just dumb, but also dangerous, and therefore worth warning others about.
From the supporter side, “Open Model Weights are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This” is a shorter and more convenient way of gesturing to the concern, and convenience is the main force in the Universe that determines all that actually happens in practice. On naive reading such gesturing centrally supports the meme. This doesn’t require the source of such support to have a misconception or to oppose publishing open weights of current models on the grounds of direct consequences.
I don’t think here is a significant confused naive supporter source of the meme that gives it teeth. It’s more that reasonable people who are not any sort of supporters of AI safety propagate this idea, on the grounds that it illustrates the way AI safety is not just dumb, but also dangerous, and therefore worth warning others about.
From the supporter side, “Open Model Weights are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This” is a shorter and more convenient way of gesturing to the concern, and convenience is the main force in the Universe that determines all that actually happens in practice. On naive reading such gesturing centrally supports the meme. This doesn’t require the source of such support to have a misconception or to oppose publishing open weights of current models on the grounds of direct consequences.