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description: "How self-hosted open-weight AI models change the security control surface and shift responsibility from provider to deployer."
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# Open-Weight Models Shift the Burden

> *This topic has been consolidated into a single canonical article. See **[Open-Weight Models Shift the Burden](../insights/open-weight-models-shift-the-burden.md)** in Insights for the full discussion of self-hosted model control implications.*

The article covers:
- How deployment model changes the control surface
- What self-hosting means for each layer of the three-layer pattern (Guardrails, Judge, Human Oversight)
- Control adjustments for open-weight deployments
- The sovereignty trade-off

