These companies are signaling their virtues for PR purposes, but it won’t change much. There are still permissively licensed open weight models and nothing is stopping governments from training their own specialized models. Given the surveillance tech the NSA already is known to have, for example, there clearly is no shortage of technologists who are willing to work on shitty things. The NSA and other 3-letter agencies are likely already using LLMs for surveillance and there are likely already LLM powered killing machines. Human-piloted drones have already been committing war crimes with impunity for quite some time, so not sure much LLMs will fundamentally change the situation.

I have no interest in using it, but at least it’s MIT licensed, which puts it ahead of Microslop’s rubbish if nothing else.