Scale AI's Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta
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Meta AI is going viral for showing user chats that should not be public, so be sure to fix your privacy settings ASAP.
Scale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will lead Meta’s new superintelligence unit.
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Meta is making an investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting Chief Executive Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.
Grok cheered. Claude refused. The results say something about who controls the AI, and what it’s allowed to say.
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Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.
Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT to co-found Scale and was quickly lauded as one of Silicon Valley's most promising entrepreneurs, raising funding from blue-chip venture capital firms and achieving billionaire status in his 20s.
Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a "significant" investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.
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.