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Two U.S. Senators have sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, questioning the leak of Meta’s popular open-source large language model LLaMA. They are concerned about the “potential for its misuse in spam, fraud, malware, privacy violations, harassment, and other wrongdoing and harms.”
The letter, written by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), chair of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, & the Law, and Josh Hawley (R-MO), its ranking member, requests information on how Meta assessed the risk of releasing LLaMA, what steps were taken to prevent the abuse of the model, and how policies and practices are being updated based on its unrestrained availability.
The subcommittee is the same one that questioned OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AI critic Gary Marcus, and IBM chief privacy and trust officer Christina Montgomery at a Senate hearing about AI rules and regulation on May 16.
Letter points to Meta’s LLaMA release in February
The letter points to LLaMA’s release in February, saying that Meta released LLaMA for download by approved researchers, “rather than centralizing and restricting access to the underlying data, software, and model.”
