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Open-Weight Models: Governance, Fine-Tuning, and Safety Gates
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Open-weight models expand innovation, but they require stronger governance: provenance, fine-tune controls, and deployment-time safety checks.
Why governance matters
When you self-host, you inherit responsibilities normally handled by vendors: patching, monitoring, abuse prevention, and incident response.
Governance is not bureaucracy—it’s the system that keeps your product reliable as it scales.
Safety gates
Add input filtering, tool allow-lists, and output policy checks. Evaluate fine-tunes before shipping and keep a rollback plan.
Maintain a model registry with lineage: base checkpoint, fine-tune data sources, and evaluation results.