Facebook’s large language model, which the company’s parent Meta Platforms is positioning as a potential rival for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has leaked online.<\/p>\n
LLaMa, which stands for Large Language Model Meta AI, is officially only available for non-commercial use by certain Meta-approved users.<\/p>\n
These can include AI and machine learning researchers, civil society organisations, and government officials.<\/p>\n
But a torrent file to download the tool has appeared on multiple websites in the past few days.<\/p>\n
The file was initially uploaded to 4chan before spreading to other places on the Internet, including a GitHub repository.<\/p>\n
According to a report from 80.lv<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the first person to spot its emergence was Replit CEO Amjad Masad<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n According to Vice<\/strong><\/a>, several users who downloaded the LLaMa tool could run it locally on their machines.<\/p>\n Other prominent language models from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are only available to the public through purpose-built consumer interfaces or APIs, which come with limitations to prevent abuse.<\/p>\n However, some malicious users have been able to bypass some of ChatGPT’s security mechanisms and get it to create phishing emails and malware code.<\/p>\n It is unclear what the ramifications of a leaked LLaMa could be, but the tool presumably won’t have the types of mitigations in place with the current version Meta provides to legitimate users.<\/p>\n Some developers have pointed out that the leak is not that big of a deal, as it was fairly easy to get legitimate access to the tool.<\/p>\n “All I did was put down that I’m a student studying machine learning and wanted to test the model, no proof required. Got access in a few days,” one Redditor said<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Others have said they struggled to get approval from Meta, with their applications seemingly being rejected for no reason despite falling into one of the qualifying testing categories.<\/p>\n Other prominent language models from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are only available to the public through purpose-built consumer interfaces or APIs, which come with limitations to prevent abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":482999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26672,35793,83065,161,84789,73842,45266],"class_list":["post-482987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-4chan","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-facebook","tag-large-language-model-meta-ai-llama","tag-meta-platforms","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483039,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482987\/revisions\/483039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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