Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
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Meta is offering a roughly 95% discount on its new Muse Spark AI model to users who agree to share their prompts and outputs to help train future versions. Under this contributor pricing, one million input tokens cost 10 cents instead of the standard $1.25, and one million output tokens cost 20 cents instead of $4.25. The article notes Meta has struggled to obtain training data, citing an internal employee monitoring initiative that was paused after criticism. It also explains that usage data is crucial for improving agentic tools, though many large companies avoid letting their data be used for training. A Princeton professor observes that firms often prefer more expensive enterprise plans to keep data private, and Meta's explicit compensation might push companies to better separate proprietary from shareable data. The pricing move may also intensify price competition among leading AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI.
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