I think Google, Facebook, and Microsoft were playing it safe and felt people weren't ready for this type of generative AI, but once OpenAI exploded in popularity they had no choice but to release there own versions even though they aren't ready.
Even worse Facebook's model leaked online so people can run it on their own machines without any safeguards in place to stop them from using it to do horrible things. This isn't going to end well and makes me wish I could go live off grid somewhere to avoid all this sometimes.
The leaked language model was posted to 4chan. The model was previously only given to approved researchers, government organizations, and members of civil society.
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