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In the things you can't do (at https://ai.meta.com/llama/use-policy/):

"Military, warfare, *nuclear industries or applications*"

Odd given the climate situation to say the least...

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I don't know their reasoning, but I can't think of a significant way to use this in a nuclear industry that wouldn't be incredibly irresponsible.

It's incredibly irresponsible of you to make such a claim that in-a-way justifies ban. How does that make any sense? I also don't see how this could be used in funeral industry.

There are numerous (countless) ways how you can use this technology in a reasonable manner in any industry. Let's try nuclear industry: - new fusion technology research (LLMs are already used for protein folding) - energy production estimation - energy consumption estimation - any kind of analytics or data out of those -...

That is very common in software licenses.

e.g. iTunes:

You Can’t Use iTunes To Make Nuclear Bombs And Wage Chemical Warfare

https://www.cultofmac.com/140224/itunes-eula-wtf/amp/

Same thing deep inside the Java TOS. I remember it from like 20 years ago.

Apart from the fact that nuclear is not such a wonderful alternative, it would be nice if they kept LLMs out of constructing reactors. "ChatGPT, design the cheapest possible U235 reactor."

Why? You wouldn't let it design _and build_ reactor and turn it on immediately. You'd first test that it works. And if it works better than any reactor that humans designed, why would you strip the world of that possibility? It doesn't even have to be a whole reactor. It could be a better design of one part of it.

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