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Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Post by winddude »

Yoric wrote: post #56
px43 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is that weights are normally stored as pickled python blobs, which means arbitrary code execution as they are unpickled.

If it's PyTorch, it can definitely contain and execute arbitrary code. One of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of PyTorch.

Anything that loads pickles from sources your unsure of can contain executable code. There were a few samples a couple month ago showing distribution on huggingface.

Some solutions for checking: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-pickle

or run them in an isolated env.

Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Post by DesiLurker »

injidup wrote: post #33
sebzim4500 wrote: post #24

Is there anything stopping anyone from using this for commercial purposes? I know that when you fill in the google form you need to agree to noncommercial use, but someone downloading this will never have agreed to that licence agreement.

I don't know. Is there anything stopping you using the latest Miley Cyrus album for commercial purposes if you downloaded it via torrent and never agreed to any licencing terms?

IDK, its more like finding recipes to many great restaurant chains all mushed together by a 5th grader whose uncle stole it from them, on the sidewalk. looks like a grey area to me legally but IANAL.

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Post by mavhc »

ipaddr wrote: post #445
Retr0id wrote: post #316

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Not really.

Is tor blocked as well?

Nope, nor are the actual trackers, it's only the website used for search that's blocked in reality, slight flaw in Bittorrent, not having p2p search, although one could argue that lead to its success, with lists of new torrents, incentives for seeding more, and the fact that most people with slow connections don't seed everything forever, unlike previous UI designs that made that the default

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Post by snordgren »

93po wrote: post #428
shadowgovt wrote: post #276

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At the end of the day, the Turing Test for establishment of AI personhood is weak for two reasons. 1. We're seeing more and more systems that get very close to passing the Turing Test but fundamentally don't register to people as "People." When I was younger and learned of Searle's Chinese Room argument, I naively assumed it wasn't a thought experiment we would literally build in my lifetime. 2. Humanity has a histor…

> very close to passing the Turing Test but fundamentally don't register to people as "People." I'm only today learning about intentionality, but the premise here seems to be that our current AI systems see a cat with their camera eyeballs and don't have the human-level experience of mentally opening a wikipedia article in our brain titled "Cat" that includes a split-second consideration of all our memories, thoughts…

Semantic search using embeddings seems like the missing puzzle piece here to me. We can already generate embeddings for both text and images.

The vision subsystem generates an embedding when it sees a cat, which the memory subsystem uses to query the database for the N nearest entries. They are all about cats. Then we feed all those database entries - summarized if necessary - along with the context of the conversation to the LLM.

Now your AI, too, gets a subconscious rush of impressions and memories when it sees a cat.

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Post by rvba »

EamonnMR wrote: post #299
rnk wrote: post #265

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When we can upload our brains to the cloud, and you can do something with them like interacting or running the brain, then we'll all be effectively immortal. That's a pretty big deal. See the book altered carbon.

Immortal as long as someone's paying to run the instance.

I bet soon after the first few people are made immortal this way, one of them will hack the banks, or the stock market, or countless other organizations.

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Post by [deleted] »

eigenvalue wrote: post #60

I'm not surprised-- I recently suggested that someone might try to pull an Aaron Swartz with the LLAMA weights (i.e., release them in an uncontrolled way similar to how Aaron attempted to release the JSTOR database). It's quite misleading for FB to claim that they are being so open, but then hoard the weights and only release it to a few academics. If the paper is to be believed, this is a major development, allowing…

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Post by msm_ »

causi wrote: post #170
pas wrote: post #128

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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?

I'd fire somebody for browsing 4chan at work. Shitting dick nipples, lolicon, and the occasional piece of child pornography does not need to be moving over our network.

I think you're confused about how 4chan works (except maybe /b/). And fortunately I live in a country where I can't legally be fired because my boss has personal grievances about particular websites

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Post by garbagecoder »

Cipater wrote: post #401
Tiberium wrote: post #99

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…

Why do 4chan users go out of their way to be so offensive in their posts?

It's to preserve the users' mental health.

Re: Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents

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Post by msm_ »

HideousKojima wrote: post #308
weberer wrote: post #153

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/g/ is one of the SFW boards

SFW on 4chan blue boards is essentially only in the sense of no pornographic imagery (and even then if a rulebreaker posts porn it can take a few minutes for the mods to catch it and remove the thread). It won't stop you seeing threads about how Lennart Poettering and SystemD are part of a Zionist conspiracy to undermine Linux or similar ideas.

> It won't stop you seeing threads about how Lennart Poettering and SystemD are part of a Zionist conspiracy to undermine Linux or similar ideas.

But these are the funniest threads!

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