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Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
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Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#12There is a difference between allowing use and supporting a use case. Supporting would be, for example, adding military specific training to the model. If we were talking about a car or a tractor nobody would bat an eye. Should companies not sell potatoes to the military? To be clear, I am not a fan of developing for the military, but the idea that a TOS will stop AI being weaponized is a bit naive. Similarly, if the…
Also, more pragmatically speaking, it wouldn't be all that "hard" to recreate current LLM state of the art from scratch now that the techniques are known. It's just really expensive in terms of hardware.
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#13What’s the problem and why is it newsworthy? Serious question.
Because almost all news is just looking for a reason, any reason, to support some kind of narrative of angst and outrage to drive engagement.
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#14There is a difference between allowing use and supporting a use case. Supporting would be, for example, adding military specific training to the model. If we were talking about a car or a tractor nobody would bat an eye. Should companies not sell potatoes to the military? To be clear, I am not a fan of developing for the military, but the idea that a TOS will stop AI being weaponized is a bit naive. Similarly, if the…
well well you could argue that they are supporting the use case, since they are not disallowing it as they do disallow it for a bunch of purposes such as training your own AI model our classifiers off of it
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#15Can a company prevent the government from using its technology? I thought the government could already seize/utilize/reverse engineer anything they so deemed fit.
who is going to police the policeman?
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#16Everyone wants "open" software without realizing what that entails. Yes the US military can use it, as can China and Iran and North Korea. You think any of them gives a shit about Meta's ToS?
> You think any of them gives a shit about Meta's ToS?
Really nobody should, about any ToS.
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#17Everyone wants "open" software without realizing what that entails. Yes the US military can use it, as can China and Iran and North Korea. You think any of them gives a shit about Meta's ToS?
> You think any of them gives a shit about Meta's ToS? Really nobody should, about any ToS.
How about The GPL?
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#18Wait until he NYTimes hears what Meta's open source can be used for too!
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#19What’s the problem and why is it newsworthy? Serious question.
Because almost all news is just looking for a reason, any reason, to support some kind of narrative of angst and outrage to drive engagement.
Joke conspiracy theory: it's all a conspiracy of mass media to paint AI as bad as they can, so when it becomes more energy-efficient it won't be able to disrupt their deceptive practices by de-hyping the headlines replacing them with impartial summaries (since all LLMs really can do are text transformations), thus upsetting the hidden attention economy. /bs
:o)
For real, though, is these something already out there that solves the clickbait problem?
Re: Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes
#20Yeah, bro, it’s an open model. You know who else supports the military? Linux. Oh shit, dawg, our open source goody two shoes software of techno Jesus permits military use. Oh man, thank god Kubernetes’ license doesn’t let it be deployed to USAF fighter jets. That would be awful.
I support open. Free as in free speech. Let’s go!