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Grok cheered. Claude refused. The results say something about who controls the AI, and what it’s allowed to say.
Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.
Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.
Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.
Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a "significant" investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.
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Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.
Asking Meta AI a prompt doesn't make it public. But there are two problems specific to the Meta AI app that make this an issue. One is that when you create your Meta AI account, it defaults to your Instagram name, so many people have their actual names and pictures on their profiles.
But Meta's desire for Meta AI users to share their chats with others via a social feed isn't surprising. Social media is how Meta makes its money. All of its apps are social apps. Also, bringing a social element to an AI chatbot experience could always work in Meta's favor.