"Meta’s open large language model family, Llama, isn’t “open-source” in a traditional sense, but it’s freely available to download and build on—and national defense agencies are among those putting it to use.

A recent Reuters report detailed how Chinese researchers fine-tuned Llama’s model on military records to create a tool for analyzing military intelligence. Meta’s director of public policy called the use “unauthorized.” But three days later, Nick Clegg, Meta’s president of public affairs, announced that Meta will allow use of Llama for U.S. national security.

“It shows that a lot of the guardrails that are put around these models are fluid,” says Ben Brooks, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He adds that “safety and security depends on layers of mitigation.”"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-used-by-military

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