Civil society group slams Meta’s release of new ‘open-source’ AI model

The Center for Democracy and Technology criticized Meta for not doing more to address harm from the bias and discrimination associated with generative artificial intelligence in the release this week of a new version of its large-language model Llama, while some in the industry praised CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a champion of open-source technology.

“Today we’re taking the next steps towards open source AI becoming the industry standard,” Zuckerberg wrote in a July 23 blog post titled “Open source...