The Wall Street Journal (Joseph De Avila) reports:
Under the settlement, Starbuck will advise Meta, the owner of Facebook, on efforts to curb what they describe as political bias in its AI tools…. During a CNBC interview Friday, Starbuck declined to say whether he had been paid by Meta as part of the settlement….
Meta has been working on removing political bias in its AI tools. AI systems have historically leaned left on contentious political and social topics based on how they have been trained, Meta said in a blog post in April.
"Our goal is to remove bias from our AI models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue," Meta said in the post, referring to its AI model.
From a joint statement by Meta and Starbuck (as reported by Fox Business (David Spector)):
