{"id":33511,"date":"2023-09-25T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/?p=33511"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:58:09","slug":"protestors-to-meta-ai-sharing-model-weights-is-fundamentally-unsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/2023\/09\/25\/protestors-to-meta-ai-sharing-model-weights-is-fundamentally-unsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Protestors to Meta AI: \u201cSharing model weights is fundamentally unsafe\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WHO: <\/strong>Concerned citizens <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT: <\/strong>Protest against Meta (formerly Facebook) releasing large language model (AI) weights <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHERE: <\/strong>The Meta building in San Francisco, 250 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105 (event page<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHEN: <\/strong>4:00pm Friday September 29, 2023\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHY: <\/strong>Protestors will be gathering outside the Meta building in San Francisco on September 29th to call for \u201cresponsible release\u201d of their cutting edge AI models. The protestors demand that Meta stop releasing the weights of their AI models publicly\u2014 what they term \u201cirreversible proliferation\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protest organizer Holly Elmore says \u201cUnlike other top AI labs, Meta says that they plan to keep releasing the weights of their models publicly, which allows anyone with an internet connection the ability to modify them. Once model weights are released, they cannot be recalled even if it becomes clear the model is unsafe\u2013 proliferating the AI model is irreversible. Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Yann LeCun, has said he\u2019s not worried if bad actors gain access to powerful AIs, even if the AIs have human-level or superhuman capabilities. This is unacceptable. New tech shouldn\u2019t be creating a Wild West where my good AI fights your bad AI\u2013 AI should be regulated like we regulate pharmaceuticals or airplanes, so that it is safe before it is released.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When large language models (LLMs) are accessed through an API, users access a version that has been fine-tuned to ensure user safety and there can be additional input\/output filtering for safety that does not take place when users are directly running the model from the weights. Meta recently released the model weights of its LLM, LLaMA 2, and the company has said that they will continue to release the weights of new models, trusting that \u201cgood guy AIs\u201d will win against \u201cbad guy AIs\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Safety measures for LLMs like LLaMA 2 aren\u2019t just about whether they say hateful things. Not only can the safety fine-tuning be stripped from models if one has the weights, Meta released a base version of LLaMa 2 without any safety fine-tuning. This is dangerous because LLMs are increasingly being developed as autonomous agents without the need for a human in the loop. Researchers have found that LLMs can be used to scale phishing campaigns, suggest cyberattacks, synthesize dangerous chemicals, or help plan biological attacks. Over the coming years, as their general capabilities increase, they will only become more capable of malicious activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the protest, Dr. Peter S. Park, AI Existential Safety Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and Director of StakeOut.AI, said \u201cAlready, widely released AI models are being misused for non-consensual pornography, hateful content, and graphic violence. And going forward, Llama 2 and successors will likely enable cybercriminals, rogue actors, and nation-state adversaries to carry out fraud and propaganda campaigns with unprecedented ease.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meta\u2019s frontier AI models are fundamentally unsafe. Since Meta AI has released the model weights publicly, any safety measures can be removed. Before it releases even more advanced models \u2013 which can have more dangerous capabilities \u2013 a group of concerned citizens call on Meta to take responsible release seriously and stop irreversible proliferation. Join in for a peaceful protest at Meta\u2019s office in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10513,"featured_media":32763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,182,81,180,67,268,56,1],"tags":[437,1343,96],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nProtestors to Meta AI: \u201cSharing model weights is fundamentally unsafe\u201d\u00a0 - insideBIGDATA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/insidebigdata.com\/2023\/09\/25\/protestors-to-meta-ai-sharing-model-weights-is-fundamentally-unsafe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protestors to Meta AI: \u201cSharing model weights is fundamentally unsafe\u201d\u00a0 - insideBIGDATA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meta\u2019s frontier AI models are fundamentally unsafe. 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