ClaimsMark Zuckerberg

“There's bad things about Llama-2 where we spend a lot of time trying to make sure that it's not like helping people commit violent acts or things like that.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, interviewee 18 April 2024 Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Factual AI safety and alignment

Meta spends a lot of time trying to make sure Llama-2 does not help people commit violent acts or things like that.

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Reasoning

How much time Meta spent on this is internal.

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Mark Zuckerberg, “Meta spends a lot of time trying to make sure Llama-2 does not help people commit violent acts or things like that.” (said 18 April 2024). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_96cdcd4901aa, method 0.1.0+3f84d14d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_96cdcd4901aa

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