I'm glad that Llama 2 and other open source (let's not fight about semantics please) LLMs are catching up. OpenAI and Microsoft need serious competition.
But what you dismiss as semantics is entirely relevant! You're upset that Microsoft and OpenAI gatekeep uncensored models. But Llama 2 has similar content filters, no? And certainly a huge list of license restrictions.
I'm glad the actual open source models are constantly improving.
Llama 2 chat, the model creates by taking the Llama 2 base model and fine-tuning it with a specialised RLHF dataset, does have "filters" (pre-loaded responses more likely to be generated for certain topics and requests). In practice, on smaller models these are able to be bypassed with some prompt engineering.
I expect uncensored chat models, created on top of the uncensored Llama 2 base models, to become available in a week or two at most (from the community, obviously, not from Facebook), if there are not already some available.
> v. You will not use the Llama Materials or any output or results of the Llama Materials to improve any other large language model (excluding Llama 2 or derivative works thereof).
https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-dow...
But you can absolutely create a fine tuning of llama2 base using llama2 output.