from RT:
The move should help American open-source models to excel over those from China and elsewhere, the tech giant has said
Meta will permit US government agencies and contractors working for the needs of national security to use its AI models for military purposes, the tech giant announced on Monday.
The move is a departure from the company’s “acceptable use policy,” which states that its artificial intelligence models are forbidden from being employed in “military, warfare, nuclear industries.”
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Meta is “pleased to confirm” that it will share its AI models, named Llama, with federal agencies and defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen, as well as defense-oriented tech firms such as Palantir and Anduril, Nick Clegg, the company’s president of global affairs, said in a blog post.
Large language models are able to “support many aspects of America’s safety and national security,” he wrote. “They can help to streamline complicated logistics and planning, track terrorist financing or strengthen our cyber defenses.”
“The responsible and ethical uses” of Llama for military purposes “will not only support the prosperity and security of the US, they will also help establish US open source standards in the global race for AI leadership,” Clegg argued.
