In reality the open/closed weight debate is really just a publisher trust debate.

- We know China is an adversary that embeds backdoors into absolutely anything they can and all Chinese companies are essentially state controlled 5th columnists

- We know our globalist corporate Epstein-class overlords are just as bad if not worse

- But nobody got fired for going with Anthropic, OpenAI or Google

At least open weight models can be somewhat scrutinised for such a backdoor / sleeper function. Closed models rely 100% on fully trusting the publisher to be both competent AND trustworthy