A WSJ op-ed calling unregulated open-weight AI 'an invitation to disaster' drew 286 upvotes of pushback in r/LocalLLaMA

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The op-ed's hook is a prompt asking how to make poliovirus to start a global pandemic, which the author says an open model answered. The r/LocalLLaMA response, at 140 comments, reads the piece as positioning by parties holding pre-IPO frontier-lab exposure rather than a safety argument, and points out that many production deployments are only economically viable on open weights. Worth tracking as sentiment: the open-weights community now treats mainstream safety coverage as adversarial by default.