发现开源模型伦理约束在传播7代后超80%丢失,治理能力有天然边界。
A governance horizon for ethical-use constraints in open-weight AI models

- 用214万模型库审计发现约束信息每1.31代衰减一半
- 7代后至少80%下游模型无法判断是否合规,形成治理盲区
- 强制声明比继承更有效,需重构政策设计而非单纯加强监管
对Hugging Face Hub上2,142,823个模型仓库的审计表明,基于自愿披露的伦理约束在模型衍生链中快速衰减:约束证据的半衰期为1.31代(R²=0.98)。超过七代后,至少80%的后代模型缺乏足够的公开证据以进行治理判断,这一深度界限被定义为治理鸿沟。平台干预显示,政策设计(而非执行力度)是关键:仅继承型设计需近乎完全执行才能推进治理边界,而要求显式声明的设计在中等执行率下即可显著延展边界。结构性瓶颈在于无上游意图可继承的孤儿组件——此类成分在任何仅依赖继承的政策下均不可判定,且未解决的上游节点还会直接造成下游判定障碍,继承规则无法修复。与PyPI中通过机器可读声明传递治理信号的情况对比,证实衰减现象特异性源于开放权重衍生结构,非开放生态固有。研究证明,基于披露的治理在开放权重AI中具有浅层、结构性局限,实现深层供应链问责需将治理信号内嵌于衍生过程本身。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ethical constraints on open-weight AI models are both a reflection of societal concerns and a foundation for AI governance policy. They are expected to propagate to downstream derivatives while implemented as voluntary metadata disclosures that must be restated at each generation of reuse. We audit 2,142,823 model repositories on Hugging Face Hub to test whether this disclosure-based governance infrastructure can sustain traceability across deep model lineages. Restriction evidence decays with a half-life of 1.31 derivation steps ($R^2$=0.98), and beyond seven downstream generations at least 80% of descendant models lack sufficient public evidence for a governance determination, a depth boundary we formalize as the governance horizon. Platform-level interventions to restore missing licence metadata reveal that policy design (not enforcement alone) is the binding factor: inheritance-only designs require near-complete enforcement to move the horizon, whereas a mandatory-declaration design that explicitly resolves orphan lineage components shifts the horizon already at moderate enforcement. The structural bottleneck is lineages with no inheritable upstream intent: such orphan components remain undecidable under any inheritance-only policy regardless of enforcement rate, and unresolved upstream nodes additionally create direct downstream undecidability bottlenecks that inheritance rules alone cannot recover. Comparison with PyPI, where governance signals are carried by explicit machine-readable declarations, corroborates that the collapse is topology-specific to open-weight derivation rather than inherent to open ecosystems. These results establish that disclosure-based governance has a shallow, structurally determined reach in open-weight AI, and that achieving deep supply-chain accountability requires provenance mechanisms propagating governance signals through derivation itself.
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