Chinese research institutions with connections to the Chinese military have developed AI systems using Metas open-source Llama model.
Papers discussing the AI model are unequivocal: the bots have military applications.
They called it ChatBIT.
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ChatBIT was trained using 100,000 military dialogue records.
Another paper from the same period described how a Llama-based LLM has already been deployed for domestic policing.
Like ChatBIT, the domestic version helps police gather and process large amounts of data to aid decision-making.
The bot is for the training of airborne electronic warfare interference strategies, Reuters said.
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At the time, Zuckerberg also waved off fears that China would get its hand on Llama.
He argued the benefits outweighed the risks.
Meta does outlineacceptable practicesfor using its open-source LLMs.
Those are, of course, the kinds of things a military does.
Their whole job is inflicting bodily harm on an individual.
But there is no recourse here for Meta.
Llama is out there.
China is using it.
Zuckerbergs company has no way to stop it.
The open-source revolution continues.
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