Meta Llama AI Co-opted by PLA

The Jamestown Foundation released a report detailing how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has repurposed Meta’s “Llama” model—an open-source AI tool originally developed to advance research—into “ChatBIT,” a platform supporting the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with real-time intelligence and military decision-making. By exploiting the open-access nature of U.S.-built technology, the CCP aims to seize the global high ground in AI, putting U.S. national security at risk.

Read the Jamestown Foundation's report HERE..

Keegan McBride in Just Security notes: "While public access to open-weight models does represent a real tradeoff between control, security, and innovation – as the Llama example underscores – the story is more complicated. 

Critics of open source models fail to recognize the key role these models will play in securing U.S. security interests in the long term.  Rather than focusing on the risks of open source AI, policymakers should ask whether the world should rely on U.S.-developed AI – or the increasingly capable open source models from China.

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