Meta gives nod to weaponizing Llama – but only for the good guys

Meta has historically restricted its LLMs from uses that could cause harm – but that has apparently changed. The Facebook giant has announced it will allow the US government to use its Llama model family for, among other things, defense and national security applications.  Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, wrote …

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck Facebook.

Once upon a time I believed the internet could be a unifying force for good.

How naive was I.

[Anonymous Coward]

China

China used it against the use policy? Who could've guessed?

At least we know our honest and righteous Western governments would never do such a thing ... openly

[Anonymous Coward]

If you "weaponize" A. I.

You're not the good guy...

[Rafael #872397]

Anduril, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir

One of these things is not like the others!

[Pete 2]

Out of the dark, into the light

> Llama, already available to the public under various conditions, was now available to US government agencies – as well as a number of commercial partners

Who, no doubt, are paying well for the ability (to use these openly, without risk of being caught)

[42656e4d203239]

Stories not instruction manuals

1984 - Check

Handmaid's Tale - Check

Neuromancer (actually, all of the Sprawl trilogy) - Check?

Never thought Gibson would write the playbook....

[imanidiot]

Ok, now THAT is horrifying

"Uncle Sam's partners such as Oracle to improve aircraft maintenance"

red flag, upon RED FLAG, upon RED FLAG!!!

That is a series of words that do not belong together in a sentence.

--> Atleast we won't have to worry about the black helicopters. They won't be flying anymore....

[Anonymous Coward]

So what seems to have happened here is:

1) China got a fancy machine that lies to people in English for obvious leverage.

2) Uncle Sam gets a fancy machine that lies to the Pentagon in English.

Uh. This is a win how?

[IGotOut]

TLDR

People are using it for bad things, so we may as well make more money from it.