Equation 2 · Part 1 · Ten Failure Modes That Define the Open-Weight AI Ecosystem
Symbol n
What this part means
modest.
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If a base model preserves a given desirable property — genuine safety training, license compliance, unmodified provenance — with independent probability p at each of n downstream forks, the probability that all n forks still have it is , which falls quickly even when p is fairly high and n is modest; the releasing lab’s own diligence bounds only the first term.
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…responsibility does not travel with the file. If a base model preserves a given desirable property — genuine safety training, license compliance, unmodified provenance — with independent probability p at each of n downstream forks, the probability that all n forks still have it is , which falls quickly even when p is fairly high and n is modest; the releasing lab’s own diligence bounds only the first term. This is not a claim that any specific p or n has been measured for a real ecosystem — it has not,…
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