Gaslighting Openness

Armin Ronacher argues that companies and AI labs are increasingly framing access restrictions as safety measures, effectively gaslighting users and the open source community. He points to Apple's DMA-related AI feature delays in Europe and Anthropic's restrictive licensing of models like Mythos and Fable as examples of companies using safety and security language to justify control over technology. He contends that true democratized access to AI and technology is in everyone's interest, and that the open source community should resist letting corporations own the narrative around access restrictions.