Meta Pioneers Safe Gen AI with Purple Llama: Entering a New Era

December 11, 2023 11:56 AM

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Realizing that generative AI development needs a hardened security framework with buy-in across the industry to make it more trusted and reduce the risks of attacks, Meta last week launched the Purple Llama initiative. Purple Llama combines offensive (red team) and defensive (blue team) strategies, drawing inspiration from the cybersecurity concept of purple teaming.

The Purple Llama initiative signals a new era in safe, responsible gen AI development in how well orchestrated it is across the Al community and the depth of benchmarks, guidelines and tools included. One of Meta’s primary goals in creating the initiative is to provide tools to help gen AI developers reduce the risks defined in White House commitments on developing responsible AI. 

Meta kicked off the initiative by releasing CyberSec Eval, a comprehensive set of cybersecurity safety evaluation benchmarks for evaluating large language models (LLMs), and Llama Guard, a safety classifier for input/output filtering that Meta has optimized for broad deployment. Meta also released its Responsible Use Guide, which provides a series of best practices for implementing the framework. 

The Purple Llama Initiatives’ framework for responsible LLM product development reflects the lessons learned on where and how to apply safeguard tools.

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