Meta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content
November 15, 2022
Meta AI trained and hosted a scientific paper generator that sometimes produced bad science and prohibited queries on topics and groups that are likely to produce offensive or harmful content.
- Alleged deployer
- meta-ai, meta, facebook
- Alleged developer
- meta-ai, meta, facebook
- Alleged harmed parties
- minority-groups, meta-ai, meta, facebook, minority-groups
Source
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