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Funny. iirc some of the big tech (I think it was Google?) use torrents internally to deploy very large images to servers. Piracy is not the only use case!
It seems that the leak originated from 4chan [1]. Two people in the same thread had access to the weights and verified that their hashes match [2][3] to make sure that the model isn't watermarked. However, the leaker made a mistake of adding the original download script which had his unique download URL to the torrent [4], so Meta can easily find them if they want to. [1]: https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/9184826…
It's funny that part of the 4chan excitement over this is that they think they'll get back the AI girlfriend experience of when character.ai was hooked up to uncensored GPT-3. All that has been thoroughly shut down by character.ai and Replika and they just want their girlfriends back.
https://www.reddit.com/r/replika/
Hundreds of men (and yes women) full on acting like they lost a spouse and posting constantly about it for weeks. AI is going to create some unusual social situations the general public isn't ready to grasp. And we're only in the early alpha stages.
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I don't think that's right - even if you had the full source code for either of those, it's extremely unlikely you'd be able to build them on your own machine.
Building them would be a challenge, but definitely not an insurmountable one. I’ve worked on a couple of C++ projects at a similar scale to Windows (millions of LOC) and the build systems were a major pain. But a determined engineer with the readme file and no other help could get it building in a week or so. (This probably says more about how hard it is to build C++ than anything else)
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... how is that a good test of anything? I mean what if I click on a /b/ link "at work"? Does that make my work output immediately tainted and the company has to immediately file for bankruptcy?
> Does that make my work output immediately tainted and the company has to immediately file for bankruptcy? No, much easier just to fire you. You’ve shown a disregard for what is almost certainly company policy, and created legal risks for the company (e.g. if anyone walked in on you while your screen was showing naked people).
old school opensource, which is a bit surprising from meta. I wonder how they managed to square that with legal. Someone must have been very good friends with Zuck.
Getting anything that could produce, look like, or smell anything like misinformation out of meta is very hard (for good reason!)
My friends have had repeated push back for various papers because they are ML based and could be in the same room as something that could possible be used by miscreants.
And here we have a LLM that can spit out all sorts of things that are misinformation like.
If their department tried to launch something like Galactica they would have been slapped down and told to think again about what they were doing in life.
old school opensource, which is a bit surprising from meta. I wonder how they managed to square that with legal. Someone must have been very good friends with Zuck.
> old school opensource, which is a bit surprising from meta Aren't you a cheeky lad? Metea turned out lots of open-source database systems: * RocksDB * Hive * Presto * Cassandra * Velox LFP
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Since I know how to explain how little that means, I don't care what links they see me go to. If I have a work-related reason to look at something then I do, simple as that, and when your job is to engineer, almost any instance of satisfying curiosity is work related ultimately.
Saving this for when I eventually get pulled into HR. “Yes I was on PornHub, but was only looking at it for the UX inspiration”.
Which reminds me of when YouTube spent forever with a broken beta HTML5 player, spending 5+ yrs building something that porn sites did immediately.
Why is Meta open sourcing its AI through torrent? Or am I understanding it all wrong