Yann LeCun made a five minute statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee (which I am considering sufficient newsworthiness it needs to be covered), defending the worst thing you can do, open sourcing AI models.
first of all the Llama system was not made open source … we released it in a way that did not authorize commercial use, we kind of vetted the people who could download the model; it was reserved to researchers and academics
If you read his prepared opening statement carefully, he never actually claims that Llama is open source; just speaks at length about the virtues of openness and open-source. Easy to end up confused though!
It sure does sound like that, but later he testifies that:
If you read his prepared opening statement carefully, he never actually claims that Llama is open source; just speaks at length about the virtues of openness and open-source. Easy to end up confused though!