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ANTHROPIC
Anthropic has launched a program to fund the creation of benchmarks for evaluating AI models, including their own, Claude.
The aim is to upgrade AI safety and performance metrics.
The program will pay third-party organisations to develop these benchmarks, accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Anthropic states, "Our investment aims to elevate AI safety, offering valuable tools for the entire ecosystem. High-quality, safety-relevant evaluations are in short supply."
Current AI benchmarks often fail to reflect real-world usage and may be outdated.
Anthropic's solution is to create benchmarks focusing on AI security and societal impacts through new tools and methods.
They specifically seek tests for tasks like cyberattacks, misinformation, and bias mitigation, and plan to develop an early warning system for national security risks.
Here are the latest insights:
Current AI benchmarks often fail to reflect real-world usage and may be outdated.
Anthropic seeks benchmarks focusing on AI security and societal impacts, such as cyberattacks, misinformation, and bias mitigation.
The program will support research and development of new evaluation platforms and large-scale model trials.
Redefining AI safety
Anthropic envisions new platforms for experts to develop their own evaluations and conduct large-scale trials.
They’ve hired a full-time coordinator and may expand promising projects.
While Anthropic's effort is commendable, trust may be an issue given their commercial ambitions.
They want funded evaluations to align with their AI safety classifications, which may force applicants to accept definitions they might not agree with.
Anthropic hopes the program will "catalyse progress towards comprehensive AI evaluation."
It remains to be seen if open efforts will collaborate with a commercial AI vendor.
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META
Meta is changing the "Made with AI" label to "AI info" on its apps after users complained about incorrect tagging.
Former White House photographer Pete Souza noticed the tag on an old photo he uploaded, likely triggered by using Adobe's tools.
Meta's Kate McLaughlin stated, "We're consistently improving our AI products and working with industry partners on AI labelling."
The new label aims to indicate content that may be modified by AI, not entirely AI-generated.
Here’s what you should know:
The issue is caused by how tools like Adobe Photoshop apply metadata.
The new label "AI info" will replace "Made with AI."
The new labels aim to clarify content modified by AI, not fully generated by it.
AI label confusion?
The issue stems from how metadata is applied by tools like Adobe Photoshop and how platforms interpret it.
As Meta's policies evolved, real-life images on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads were mistakenly tagged "Made with AI."
The new labelling will start appearing on mobile apps first, followed by web view.
Clicking the tag still provides a detailed explanation, covering images fully generated by AI or edited with AI tools like Generative Fill.
Metadata tagging tech like C2PA was supposed to simplify identifying AI-generated from real images, but that technology isn't fully developed yet.
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