Protesters Oppose Meta's Release of Open-Source AI Over Misuse Fears

Protesters gathered at Meta's offices to oppose the company's release of open-source AI models, fearing misuse.

Meta made its LLaMA models freely available to researchers, then leaked the weights online.

Critics say open-sourcing enables modifying models to bypass safety features and cause harm.

Supporters of open source say it enables research and that secret models can still be misused.

There are disagreements over whether Meta's approach counts as true open source and how to define it for AI.