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Open Source AI Is Becoming a Workbench, Not a Movement
Open source AI's live thread has turned from ideology to maintenance work, pushing ChatGPT into a role users route around rather than trust alone.
The institutional shift is that open source AI is being judged by whether it can absorb responsibility, not whether it can merely run outside a lab account. The same cluster that includes local model troubleshooting also includes agent projects built around auditable state transitions, structured proof gates, and unattended workers, including independent AI workers framed as a control-plane problem rather than a chatbot problem. That changes the status of ChatGPT: the product keeps cultural gravity, but the infrastructure conversation has already moved to systems users can inspect, fork, and discipline.