Meta secretly helped China advance AI, ex-Facebooker will tell Congress
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/congress-to-question-whistleblower-who-accused-meta-of-helping-china-in-ai-race/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user/ArsTechnica
Meta secretly helped China advance AI, ex-Facebooker will tell Congress
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/congress-to-question-whistleblower-who-accused-meta-of-helping-china-in-ai-race/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user/ArsTechnica
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Open source already helped, Meta secretly helping? Let’s wait for the proof, that’s quite a bold statement.
Seriously? FB is the only American company with an open source model. They helped everyone, and who the fuck cares if they helped China, China actually did something good and also open sourced it. Everyone should have access to all of these models (not hardware to run them, that’s expensive) but the data sets should be free and open unless the data was from a source that can vouch for it. (i.e. the data wasn’t stolen)
This is a little out of date if it’s saying “will testify” (future tense). I watched the full testimony from Sarah Wynn-Williams, and it’s pretty damning if true. It’s not just her word either, there is documentation of Meta execs (Zuckerberg specifically) working extensively with the CCP for years and lying about it under oath. They (among other things) developed custom censorship and surveillance software for the Chinese government and used it not only in China but also Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to her testimony.