Meta downplays AI threat to elections, touts benefits of open-sourcing models
• Meta's Nick Clegg claims generative AI poses little threat to elections, says it's more useful for defending democracy
• Clegg points to recent major elections where AI tools weren't systematically used to disrupt or subvert the democratic process
• Meta set to soon launch most advanced AI model Llama 3, which unlike peers will be open source with few constraints
• Open sourcing allows more eyes to spot flaws, but makes it harder to prevent misuse by bad actors
• Meta's Yann LeCun argues the bigger risk is a few closed AI models dominating and failing to cater to diverse languages, cultures and value systems