"Maier immediately responded by saying that he had grown up Mormon and was “not a huge fan of pornography and things like that myself.” But it was clear that he took the promise of open source AI very seriously — even pointing to the New Testament’s Parable of the Weeds as an explanation. The parable, related by Jesus in the Book of Matthew, describes how servants eager to pull up weeds were warned that in doing so they would also root out the wheat, so they were told to let both grow together until the harvest.

“People that are there to make these NSFW things are creating and pushing for these models in ways that kind of transcend that use case,” Maier said. “It’s been valuable to have the community even if they’re making things that I’m not interested in, or that I prefer not to have on the site.”"