[LINK] RFC: Alarm about Meta-LLaMA

[Roger Clarke]

Bruce Schneier's offered the item below on the democratisation of large 
language models.  Any other leads on the topic much appreciated!

Open-Source LLMs
2 Jun 2023
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/open-source-llms.html

In February, Meta released its large language model: LLaMA. Unlike 
OpenAI and its ChatGPT, Meta didn’t just give the world a chat window to 
play with. Instead, it released the code into the open-source community, 
and shortly thereafter the model itself was leaked. Researchers and 
programmers immediately started modifying it, improving it, and getting 
it to do things no one else anticipated. And their results have been 
immediate, innovative, and an indication of how the future of this 
technology is going to play out. Training speeds have hugely increased, 
and the size of the models themselves has shrunk to the point that you 
can create and run them on a laptop. The world of AI research has 
dramatically changed.

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