Microsoft’s oops moment: Deleted AI project rises from the digital grave
The LLM was taken down, but not before people were able to download it.
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- Last week, Microsoft researchers released an open-source LLM called WizardLM 2.
- The AI was taken down shortly after the realization it had not undergone “toxicity testing.”
- Despite the quick takedown, several people were still able to download the model and reupload it to Github and Hugging Face.
You may have missed this, but some Microsoft researchers pushed out an open-source LLM last week. When it was released, it was described as a next-generation open-source state-of-the-art LLM. Microsoft has since taken the AI model down, but it appears not before people were able to download and reupload it.
First reported by The Information, researchers from Microsoft Research Asia published an AI model dubbed WizardLM 2. Within hours of its release, Microsoft deleted the model from open-source repositories like Github and Hugging Face. The team behind WizardLM 2 later revealed that the LLM was taken down because they “accidentally missed” a required safety step — “toxicity testing.”
