Sam Altman has called out Mark Zuckerberg with claims that Meta tried to lure OpenAI staff with $100 million salaries.
According to the OpenAI CEO, Meta made attempts to poach the AI company’s staff by offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million.
Appearing on an episode of the Uncapped podcast, which is hosted by Altman’s brother, Jack Altman, he said: “I’ve heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor.
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“Their current AI efforts have not worked as well as they have hoped and I respect being aggressive and continuing to try new things.”
Altman went on to say that Meta’s approach to luring staff would not set up a winning culture.
He continued: “I think that there’s a lot of people, and Meta will be a new one, that are saying ‘we’re just going to try to copy OpenAI’.
“That basically never works. You’re always going to where your competitor was, and you don’t build up a culture of learning what it’s like to innovate.”
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Headed up by Zuckerberg, Meta has been making moves into the world of AI, with its own chatbot known as Meta AI starting its training last month.
The AI is using public content shared by users over the age of 18 in the European Union (EU) in order to enhance its models.
The rollout of the AI technology was finally launched in April of this year after it was originally due to be released in June 2024, but was delayed after concerns were raised about data protection and privacy.
Meta has confirmed that users of Facebook and Instagram within the EU would receive notifications detailing the type of data that the firm is taking from them.
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However, this information will only be taken from public data and not private messages, or the public information from accounts of people under 18 years old.
However, it seems that not everyone is pleased with the move as Austrian advocacy group NOYB (None Of Your Business) revealed that it would be seeking an injunction against Meta.
Max Schrems, who leads the privacy activist group, said: “The European Court of Justice has already held that Meta cannot claim a ‘legitimate interest’ in targeting users with advertising on Facebook.
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“How should it have a ‘legitimate interest’ to suck up all data for AI training?”
Although, don’t panic just yet - you can opt out of the training by entering your social media account and going into the privacy settings.