Meta pulls Galactica language model three days after launch

Model reached biased and harmful conclusions despite 'good' training data

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Meta pulls Galactica language model just three days after launch
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Meta pulls Galactica language model just three days after launch

Meta has taken its new large language model, Galactica AI, offline after experts found it to be biased and generating false information.

Meta AI launched a demo of Galactica last week, with the intent of making it easier for scientists and other researchers to collect, combine and reason about scientific information. The company ...

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