Meta’s Chief AI Officer is lying about the EU AI Act
A few days ago it looked like the EU AI Act had finally been negotiated, and resolved. There was much rejoicing.
But the big tech executives that would need to deal with it aren’t happy, and are doing their best after the fact to undermine a hard-won compromise that involved years of negotiations and multiple all-nighters.
One of the people pushing hardest to undermine the EU AI Act is Meta’s Chief AI Officer Yann LeCun, who just posted this rhetorical masterpiece … that is a flagrant lie:
The phrase “Added late in the text” — which tries to paint the regulation of foundation models as some kind of sneaky last minute move — is a massive, massive misrepresentation.
The first mention of foundation models (sometimes referred to as General Purpose AI) didn’t come at the last minute last week. It didn’t come earlier in December. It didn’t come in November, it didn’t come in October. It didn’t come from me or from Sam Altman when we spoke at the Senate in May when we talked about regulating AI. If fact it didn’t even come in 2023, at all. It didn’t even come in November 2022, when ChatGPT was released.
It came in the middle of May 2022.
From the French government.
Gary Marcus has seen Yann LeCun lie before, and documented it, but this takes the cake.
"Gary Marcus has seen Yann LeCun lie before, and documented it, but this takes the cake."
It's much worse Gary. This takes the chocolate. It takes the world's supply of Vosges! 😱
Just on the issue itself - there isn’t any *actual text* yet, only political agreements that are currently interpreted by people writing said text. Which looks like it will take another month.