A Meta Employee Uploads Llama's Weights to 4chan Via BitTorrent Magnet Link. Within 24 Hours, It's Being Fine-Tuned to Produce CSAM and Bioweapon Synthesis Guides. Meta's Response: 'This Was Not Our Intent.'
March 3, 2023 — Meta gives Llama 1 weights to a few hundred academic researchers under a non-commercial license. Within a week, a 4chan user posts a BitTorrent magnet link for the full 65B-parameter checkpoint. By March 10 it's mirrored on HuggingFace, Kaggle, and IPFS. Meta issues DMCA takedowns that Streisand-effect the whole thing into global news. Two months later Meta pivots and releases Llama 2 as 'open' weights — because the cat is never going back in the bag.
A Meta Employee Uploads Llama's Weights to 4chan Via BitTorrent Magnet Link. Within 24 Hours, It's Being Fine-Tuned to Produce CSAM and Bioweapon Synthesis Guides. Meta's Response: 'This Was Not Our Intent.'
March 3, 2023 — Meta gives Llama 1 weights to a few hundred academic researchers under a non-commercial license. Within a week, a 4chan user posts a BitTorrent magnet link for the full 65B-parameter checkpoint. By March 10 it's mirrored on HuggingFace, Kaggle, and IPFS. Meta issues DMCA takedowns that Streisand-effect the whole thing into global news. Two months later Meta pivots and releases Llama 2 as 'open' weights — because the cat is never going back in the bag.
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