Chinese researchers linked to the People’s Liberation Army have created an artificial intelligence tool to collect and analyze data to provide reliable information during military operations.
According to a report by Reuters ( ), Reuters’ ChatBIT tool is based on an older version of Meta’s publicly available Llama 13B LLM (Large Language Model). In a published academic article in June, researchers said the tool had been “optimized for dialogue and question answering tasks in the military domain.”
This claim is in direct contradiction to Meta’s Acceptable Use Policy ( ), which prohibits the use of its software which prohibits the use of its model in “military, war, nuclear industries or applications, espionage, the use of materials or activities subject to the International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR) maintained by the United States Department of State.
In a statement provided to Reuters, Molly Montgomery, Meta’s director of public policy, said any use of the company’s model “by the People’s Liberation Army is not authorized and is contrary to our policy.” acceptable use.
Another Meta spokesperson said that an “outdated version of a US open-source model is irrelevant when we know that China is already investing more than a trillion dollars to overtake the US in the field of AI.
