Open Letter to Amodei Asks for One Law Instead of Evaluators: Any Model Sold to the Public Must Ship Open Weights
Jake Gold / Hacker News (290pts, 96 comments)·medium signal
Jake Gold's September 12 letter takes Amodei at his word and proposes a single legislative rule, that any AI model a company offers to the public must be released as open weights, with internal and research models exempt. He argues this constrains every lab's funding simultaneously in a way embedded evaluators and compute thresholds do not, and names Fable and Astra as the models it would cover. It reached 290 points in 17 hours and is one of two open-weights counter-proposals that hit the HN front page within a day of the essay.