[danuker]

I don't think they made up for it. They are training AIs off of personal data. The open stuff are a desperate red herring.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/meta_ai_training/

[jen729w]

> a desperate red herring.

Or you can recognise that ‘Meta’ isn’t a conscious entity, and that it’s perfectly likely that there are some people over there doing amazing open-source work, and different people over there making ethically dubious decisions when building their LLMs.

[account42]

The people doing amazing open-source work are also making the ethically dubious decision of supporting the other group by working for FB.

[jhallenworld]

So this is one argument- another is that I'm impressed that they got their own LLM running and integrated into facebook messenger.

I ran across this interesting graphic recently:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23987953/the-gpu-haves-an...

Suddenly facebook is useful as a search engine..

Also interesting is that Meta AI is much faster than ChatGPT from end-user's point of view, but results not quite as good. Here is a comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vLvLN5wxS0