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Is there an argument against Open Source AI?

Not the usual nation-state rhetoric, but something that justifies that closed source leads to better user-experience and fewer security and privacy issues.

An ecosystem that benefits vendors, customers, and the makers of close source?

Are there historical analogies other than Microsoft Windows or Apple iPhone / iOS?

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Lets take the iphone. Secured by the industries best security teams I am sure. Closed source, yet teenagers in eastern europe have cracked into it dozens of times making jailbreaks. Every law enforcement agency can crack into it. Closed source is not a security moat, but a trade protection moat.

Replace "Open Source AI" in "is there an argument against xxx" with bioweapons or nuclear missiles. We are obviously not at that stage yet, but it could be a real, non-trivial concern in the near future.

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