If users leave Facebook because spam, and if spam is easy to generate with Llama and friends, Meta wouldn’t open-source models that so easily generate spam, I mean. The incentives are misaligned.
Meta probably publicly released llama to undermine the hype openai was getting at the time. They were seen as the incumbents about to be disrupted by the new kid and they needed to assure the markets that they were also leading ai and also to drain the perceived moat that was fuelling the openai stock price?
