I’m genuinely in two minds about the abliterated model debate. It boils down to a liberty v paternalism debate that plagues many political issues. On one hand, I dislike overly broad safeguards and the idea that a few companies ought to control what you can and can’t do with models. In the set of things banned from most modeled, there are clearly positive beneficial ways to use them: white hat applications of cyber, research in defense tech, research in model development, biotech. Freedom to…