Meta's Days of Giving Away AI for Free Are Numbered

>There’s no clear answer on whether open-source AI is good or bad for society. Sure, it addresses a growing concentration of power among Silicon Valley companies; but as free models become more capable, giving them away raises the risks of misuse. Chinese military researchers have used Llama to build their own intelligence tool called ChatBIT, for instance, using it to gather data and make operational decisions. Researchers also created a “BadLlama” model with no safety features, something they wouldn’t have been able to do with closed systems like ChatGPT.

was this paragraph written in 2023? that genie is not going back into the bottle. China has the tech, the talent, and the compute.

Re: Meta's Days of Giving Away AI for Free Are Numbered

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Post by Culonavirus » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

123yawaworht456 wrote: post #4

>There’s no clear answer on whether open-source AI is good or bad for society. Sure, it addresses a growing concentration of power among Silicon Valley companies; but as free models become more capable, giving them away raises the risks of misuse. Chinese military researchers have used Llama to build their own intelligence tool called ChatBIT, for instance, using it to gather data and make operational decisions. Rese…

How did we arrive to the point of the traditional left wing - including the most of the media - trusting multinational megacorps and not trusting regular people (by that I mean your typical university researcher not employed by a multinational megacorp)? Nation states, at least the big ones, already have access to the SOTA by means of espionage, which is - at least as far as China is concerned - a well documented reality.

I mean... like you said, the genie is already out of the bottle, I don't get it.

Re: Meta's Days of Giving Away AI for Free Are Numbered

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Post by twelve40 » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 10:53 AM UTC

Culonavirus wrote: post #5

123yawaworht456 wrote: post #4

>There’s no clear answer on whether open-source AI is good or bad for society. Sure, it addresses a growing concentration of power among Silicon Valley companies; but as free models become more capable, giving them away raises the risks of misuse. Chinese military researchers have used Llama to build their own intelligence tool called ChatBIT, for instance, using it to gather data and make operational decisions. Rese…

How did we arrive to the point of the traditional left wing - including the most of the media - trusting multinational megacorps and not trusting regular people (by that I mean your typical university researcher not employed by a multinational megacorp)? Nation states, at least the big ones, already have access to the SOTA by means of espionage, which is - at least as far as China is concerned - a well documented rea…

well, unlike say linux it's not just the code, but training data which of course never has been and never will be shared, and compute. So keeping the whole thing (training data, compute, and the code) private seems quite doable, even if one or two parts of this get leaked you still can't build on top of the whole thing.