A research paper hot off the press from Meta AI has made quite a splash in the academic community. In layman’s terms, Meta has effectively open sourced a set of language models so large that it makes Meta more open than OpenAI, the dedicated research lab founded by Elon Musk, among others. While it sounds like Meta is ticking all the right boxes – including sustainability, diversity and openness within AI language models – one has to consider whether this is more than a muscle-flexing PR stunt? Besides, what’s stopping people using Meta’s new open models for harmful purposes, like spreading fake news or developing more convincing deep fake videos? Without getting too deep into the methodology (you’ll thank us…