The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation?

The bottleneck isn't the cost of producing disinfo, which is already very low.

Ten days ago, Meta announced a large language model called LLaMA. The company said the goal was to foster research. It didn’t release the model publicly but allowed researchers to request access through a form. But a week later, someone leaked the model. This is significant because it makes LLaMA the most capable LLM publicly available. It is reportedly competitive with LaMDA, the model underlying Google’s Bard. Many experts worry that we are about to see an explosion of misuse, such as scams and disinformation. But let’s back up. Models that are only slightly less capable have been…

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