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Here’s an unintended consequence for you: Reuters rEPORTS that Facebook owner Meta’s open-source Llama model is already being used by the Chinese military.

According to the report, the military-focused artificial intelligence tool called “ChatBIT” is being developed to gather intelligence and provide information for operational decision-making, as outlined in an academic paper obtained by Reuters.

Unsurprisingly, allowing a foreign adversary’s military to use your large language model is not exactly a good picture.

In a thinly veiled attempt to own the narrative, Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, published a blog post just three days after Reuters“, claiming that they are working to make Llama “available to US government agencies and contractors working on national security applications”.

The blog post desperately tries to pull the strings of US tech leaders, with Clegg arguing that AI models like Llama “will not only support US prosperity and security, but also help set US open source standards in the global race. for AI management”.

But her timing is certainly suspect, as Gizmodo NOTES. What else could explain the jarring saccharine appeal to Americans now, while China’s People’s Liberation Army was using its AI before the US government thought to do the same?

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That Reuters points out, Meta’s blog post also flies in the face of the company’s acceptable use policywhich prohibits “military, war, nuclear industries or applications, espionage”.

But since AI is completely open source, these provisions are totally ineffective and unenforceable, serving mostly as a way for the Meta to cover its tracks.

Clegg argued that through open-source AI models, the US could better compete with other nations “including China,” which are “racing to develop their own open-source models” and “investing heavily to get ahead US”.

“We believe it is in the interests of America and the wider democratic world that American open source models excel and succeed over models in China and elsewhere,” wrote the former UK deputy prime minister.

But whether that kind of reasoning will satisfy Pentagon officials remains to be seen. Meta’s fragmentation is symptomatic of a massive national security blind spot. Now that the cat is out of the bag, the United States’ adversaries are enjoying the same leaps in technology as it and its allies.

Last month, the Biden administration announced that he is finalizing rules to limit US AI investments in China that could threaten US national security. But given the Meta’s fast and loose approach, these rules will likely be far too little, far too late.

Meta, on the other hand, thinks its AI is far too weak to make a difference to China anyway.

“In the global competition on artificial intelligence, the supposed role of a unique and outdated version of an American open-source model is irrelevant when we know that China is already investing more than a trillion dollars to overtake the US in artificial intelligence,” a carrier of word. said Reuters.

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