10 Things To Watch Out For With Open Source Gen AI
CIO, Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
Open source generative AI models can be downloaded for free, used at scale without racking up API call costs, and run securely behind corporate firewalls. But don't let your guard down. Risks still exist and some aren't only magnified, but new ones specific to gen AI are emerging.
It seems anyone can make an AI model these days. Even if you don't have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name.
According to Stanford's AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. And there are an insane number of variants. Hugging Face currently tracks more than 80,000 LLMs for text generation alone and fortunately has a leaderboard that lets you quickly sort the models by how they score on various benchmarks. And these models, though they lag behind the big commercial ones, are improving quickly.