Social media giant Meta has reportedly dissolved its division responsible for regulating its artificial intelligence (ai) projects as they are developed and deployed.
ai-team” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow”>According According to a report, many team members from Meta’s ai division have moved into roles within the company’s generative ai products division, and some have joined the ai infrastructure team.
Meta’s generative ai team, established in February, focuses on developing products that generate language and images to mimic the equivalent version created by humans. It came as companies across the tech industry poured money into developing machine learning to avoid being left behind in the ai race. Meta is among the big tech companies playing catch-up since the ai boom took off.
The restructuring comes as Facebook’s parent company nears the end of its “year of efficiency,” as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called it during an earnings call in February. So far, that has translated into a wave of company layoffs, team mergers and redeployments.
Ensuring the safety of ai has become a priority for major players in the sector, especially as regulators and other officials pay more attention to the potential harms of the nascent technology. In July, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI formed an industry group focused on setting security standards as ai advances.
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According to the report, the responsible team members of the ai division have been redeployed within the company, but remain committed to supporting the development and responsible use of ai, emphasizing continued investment in this area.
The company recently introduced two ai-powered generative models. The first, Emu Video, takes advantage of Meta’s previous Emu model and can generate video clips based on text and image inputs. The second model, Emu Edit, focuses on image manipulation and promises greater precision in image editing.
Cointelegraph reached out to Meta for more information but has not yet received a response.
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