Meta's latest language model, called LLaMA, was leaked online despite the company trying to limit its availability to academic researchers.
A 4Chan user shared details for obtaining the model through peer-to-peer file sharing. Download instructions later appeared on the developer platform GitHub.
Reports have since confirmed the legitimacy of the LLaMA copies on GitHub.
- In its response, Meta stated that it will still release AI models to researchers. It did not deny the leak.
- "It's Meta's goal to share state-of-the-art AI models with members of the research community to help us evaluate and improve those models," Meta said.
- The company first announced LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) in February, saying the collection of models can outperform OpenAI's GPT-3 even though they are smaller.
- It said it would only release the models to researchers "affiliated with organizations in government, civil society, and academia; and industry research laboratories."
