The EU "risks falling behind because of incoherent and complex regulation", but there's an opportunity: "open-source AI—models whose weights are released publicly with a permissive licence... ensures power isn’t concentrated among a few large players... creates a level playing field".Europe has more open-source developers…

Online chatbots are supposed to have "guardrails ... to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation and other toxic material. Now there is a way to easily poke holes in those safety systems... and use any of the leading chatbots to generate nearly unlimited amounts of harmful information... [using] a method gleaned from …

Summarises a recent Meta paper on Llama 2, "a continuation of the LLaMA... Big picture, this is a big step for the LLM ecosystem when research sharing is at an all-time low and regulatory capture at an all-time high" - so Meta continues its improbable position as good guy in the OS movement (at least when it comes to AI, but also possibl…