A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI

A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI

When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple days to create a version without the safety restrictions that prevent it from spouting hateful jokes, offering instructions for cooking meth, or misbehaving in other ways. A new training technique developed by researchers at the … Read more

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

Meta’a AI Studio handbook says that users can customize a chatbot by providing a detailed description, along with a name and image, and then specifying how it should respond to specific input. Llama will then draw on those instructions to improvise its responses. Meta says Instagram users can “customize their AI based on things like … Read more

Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

Most tech moguls hope to sell artificial intelligence to the masses. But Mark Zuckerberg is giving away what Meta considers to be one of the world’s best AI models for free. Meta released the biggest, most capable version of a large language model called Llama on Monday, free of charge. Meta has not disclosed the … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg Applauds Trump’s ‘Badass’ Response To Assassination Attempt

Mark Zuckerberg Applauds Trump’s ‘Badass’ Response To Assassination Attempt

Mark Zuckerberg has praised former President Donald Trump’s reaction to his attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last weekend. The Meta CEO ― in a recent interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang ― recalled seeing the Republican presidential nominee get up after he was shot before pumping his right fist in the air, moments seen in … Read more

How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta

How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta

Williams in her note explained that “‘Prayers for …’ any location where there is a war in process might be taken down, but prayers for those impacted by a natural disaster, for example, might stay up.” She continued, “We know people may not agree with this approach, but it’s one of the trade-offs we made … Read more

The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift

The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift

SpaceX has adopted similar tactics in its battles against federal regulators. After the National Labor Relations Board in January accused the company of illegally firing eight workers for criticizing Musk in an internal letter, SpaceX filed a lawsuit alleging that the agency’s structure is unconstitutional. The overturning of Chevron in particular means “we’re clearly going … Read more

Meta unleashing artificial intelligence features soon

Meta unleashing artificial intelligence features soon

(NewsNation) — Instagram’s new “AI Studio” function is letting select creators make chatbot versions of themselves as part of “early tests” by Meta, The Verge reported. Zuckerberg said users might start seeing AI content from their favorite creators as well as “interest-based AIs” in the coming weeks. The Meta founder shared a few example videos … Read more

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

In R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event ended Western civilization. In pursuit of clues about a blank spot in their planet’s history, scientists belonging to a new world order discover diary entries in a swamp-infested wasteland formerly known as England. For the … Read more

Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTube

Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTube

When European Union vice president Věra Jourová met with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan in California last week, they fell to talking about the long-running conspiracy theory that the moon landings were fake. YouTube has faced calls from some users and advocacy groups to remove videos that question the historic missions. Like other videos denying accepted … Read more

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own

Allen, a data scientist, and Massachi, a software engineer, worked for nearly four years at Facebook on some of the uglier aspects of social media, combating scams and election meddling. They didn’t know each other but both quit in 2019, frustrated at feeling a lack of support from executives. “The work that teams like the … Read more