Meta's Open-Source AI Model Llama 2 Draws Concerns Over Misuse Despite Popularity

Meta released its Llama 2 AI model as open-source in July, and it's become very popular among AI developers.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad said Mark Zuckerberg took a risk making the powerful model open-source since it could be misused.

Open-source allows anyone to freely use, inspect, update, and share software back to the community.

Llama 2 has been downloaded over 30 million times, showing the demand for open-source AI models.

If Meta stopped supporting Llama as open-source, Masad worries no other tech company would step in given the "AI safety angle."