This argument by @deanwball is being badly misunderstood. It's OK to disagree with it, but first you have to actually understand what he's saying. He's saying: releasing the weights for a frontier-level model is effectively dumping. Dumping is when you sell a product at significantly below cost in
@hosseeb·Jul 18, 2026·2 sources·neutral
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An argument that releasing frontier-level model weights constitutes dumping, which is illegal and harms market competition.
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This argument by @deanwball is being badly misunderstood. It's OK to disagree with it, but first you have to actually understand what he's saying. He's saying: releasing the weights for a frontier-level model is effectively dumping. Dumping is when you sell a product at significantly below cost in
@hosseeb
Jul 18, 2026
How is that a category error? Industrial policy commonly involves strategies that are criticized as dumping. There's just seldom a way to enforce against dumping in an international context. And in what sense is a frontier model released for free "a different product entirely" vs a closed frontier
@hosseeb
Jul 19, 2026