The card states that Llama 4 is not designed for standalone deployment and recommends that developers integrate system-level safety tools including Llama Guard, Prompt Guard, and Code Shield as part of any production deployment.
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This provision establishes that the model's safety design assumes the presence of additional system-level guardrails, meaning deployments that omit these tools operate outside the safety architecture Meta describes. Enterprise deployers should document whether and how they have implemented recommended system protections.
The agreement states that Llama 4 is intended to be deployed with additional safety layers, and that the safety characteristics described in the model card assume those layers are present. Applications that deploy Llama 4 without recommended system protections may operate with a different safety profile than described in this document.
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Compare across platforms →"Large language models, including Llama 4, are not designed to be deployed in isolation but instead should be deployed as part of an overall AI system with additional guardrails as required. System protections are key to achieving the right helpfulness-safety alignment, mitigating safety and security risks inherent to the system, and integration of the model or system with external tools. We provide the community with system level protections - like Llama Guard, Prompt Guard and Code Shield - that developers should deploy with Llama models or other LLMs.Excerpt from Meta's Llama 4 Model Card
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The recommendation to deploy system-level protections engages the EU AI Act's technical documentation and risk management requirements, which require deployers to implement appropriate technical measures for the risk level of their application.
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This provision establishes that the model's safety design assumes the presence of additional system-level guardrails, meaning deployments that omit these tools operate outside the safety architecture Meta describes. Enterprise deployers should document whether and how they have implemented recommended system protections.
The agreement states that Llama 4 is intended to be deployed with additional safety layers, and that the safety characteristics described in the model card assume those layers are present. Applications that deploy Llama 4 without recommended system protections may operate with a different safety profile than described in this document.
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