Meta

Meta

⚠️ Sample. An AI-generated demo of LLM Wiki Newsroom — the "open source AI" topic is just the example corpus.

Overview

Meta is the technology company whose Llama model family is the most-cited example in the OpenWashing debate. Meta released Llama in early 2023 under a custom community license that promotes the model as open while imposing usage restrictions, and the OpenSourceInitiative lists Llama as non-compliant with the OpenSourceAI definition because it lacks required components and its legal terms conflict with open-source principles. Mozilla cites "open-ish models like Meta's Llama 3" as the kind of release the OSAID is meant to clarify. Llama is more precisely characterized as an OpenWeights release, since Meta publishes weights but not full training data or training code.

Connections

• OpenWashing — Llama is the canonical open-washing example
• OpenWeights — the release model Llama actually fits
• ModelLicensing — Llama's community license is the point of contention
• OpenSourceInitiative — judged Llama non-compliant with the OSAID