If you care about geopolitics—and perhaps, more specifically, American hegemony—open weight models are increasingly demonstrating their value to countries and businesses around the world over proprietary ones.
The most advanced open weight models are coming from China and
Flock leaves us with no meaningful way to avoid surveillance absent legal protections.
We can conceivably turn off location tracking, leave a phone at home, use encrypted messaging, or decline to use a particular service.
But we are legally required to display license plates,
