5 things about AI you may have missed today: Meta says no downside to AI sharing, new lawsuit against AI, more
It's the first day of the last month of 2023, and we might be in for an exciting period in artificial intelligence space as companies continue developing this technology while protest groups keep highlighting its dangers. In the first news, Meta executives said that they found no downside to openly sharing its AI technology. This comes as the tech company keeps releasing open-source versions of its large language models. In other news, a group of visual artists has filed an amended lawsuit against text-to-image generating AI models after a US district judge dismissed parts of the lawsuit last month. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
Meta executives stated at an event that they had not encountered any issues by openly sharing their AI technology, reports Bloomberg. The statement comes at a time when their competitors in OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google have taken a different approach. In the past months, Meta has been releasing open-source versions of its large language models, similar to the technology behind AI chatbots like ChatGPT. The company's strategy is to make these models freely available and then gain a competitive edge by developing products and services on top of them.
"There is really no commercial downside to also making it available to other people,” said Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist.
Visual artists have filed an amended copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI, alleging unauthorized use of their artwork to train AI systems, as per a report by Reuters. US District Judge William Orrick previously dismissed parts of the lawsuit but permitted the plaintiffs to refile. The updated complaint includes more artists and additional details on the
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