US gov memo on “adversarial distillation” – are we heading toward tighter controls on open models?

Just came across this memo from the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Main point seems to be concern around large-scale extraction of model capabilities using proxy accounts and jailbreak techniques. Basically industrialized distillation of frontier models.

Feels like this is less about open source directly and more about protecting proprietary models , but the bigger question is If governments start treating model weights and capabilities as strategic assets, where does that leave open models?

On one hand, open models drive innovation and accessibility. A lot of progress in this community comes from that openness

On the other hand, if capability extraction becomes a national security concern

there could be pressure to limit what gets released or how