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Claim · 2023-03-06 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Narayanan and Kapoor's post of 6 March 2023, written after the leak of Meta's LLaMA weights, argues that the cost of producing disinformation is not the bottleneck for influence operations, so that the risk of malicious misuse of open language models is lower than widely assumed, which they call an argument in favour of open-sourcing.

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The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation? → articulates → Open models reduce risk

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