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Comment by Nick Clegg

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Meta president of global affairs
My view is that the hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology. I think a lot of the existential warnings relate to models that don’t currently exist, so-called super-intelligent, super-powerful AI models – the vision where AI develops an autonomy and agency on its own, where it can think for itself and reproduce itself. The models that we’re open-sourcing are far, far, far short of that. In fact, in many ways they’re quite stupid. AI Verified source (2023)
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Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs

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AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Nick Clegg, then-Meta president of global affairs, given to the BBC Today Programme around July 19, 2023, when Meta released Llama 2. Coverage by The Guardian, Fortune, NPR, Axios, and Irish Times all confirm Clegg's argument that 'the hype has somewhat run ahead of the technology' and that current open-source models are 'quite stupid' compared to existential AI scenarios. Direct fetch of theguardian.com was blocked but multiple independent sources confirm the wording. Vote 'against' on 'Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs' aligns with Clegg/Meta's pro-open-source stance. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 13d ago
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