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REOreddit t1_j6m76ir wrote

Can you imagine a chatbot made by Facebook/Meta that would lie as confidently as ChatGPT? That would be a PR nightmare for them, and that's the whole reason they don't have one in the wild. People still remember Microsoft's bot Tay experiment on Twitter.

Meta and Google have AI technology on par or superior to that of OpenAI. All top companies that do AI research publish papers, so it is not exactly a secret how advanced they are.

LeCun is not comparing ChatGPT to what is freely available to the general public, he is comparing it to what is available in the top AI research labs.

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enkae7317 t1_j6m8d5i wrote

I agree and I think this is the reason WHY they're not releasing their product yet. They remember Tay getting racist and xenophobic and all sorts of crazy within a day or two of being released to the public. They saw that and were like "nope", we aint gettin that bad press.

So they spend years and years moderating their internal chatbot and being too scared to release it publicly, because they know it'll go racist or whatever. They will take years upon years to build failsafe after failsafe and before they know it--a competitor (ChatGPT) released theirs first and now they're scrounging up, picking up scraps to try and get SOME footing in the door before getting forgotten in the annals of history.

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