AI News roundup: Meta's new AI model, ChatGPT's woes in Europe and more

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An Australian mayor has threatened a defamation suit against OpenAI, alleging that its chatbot, ChatGPT, made some false claims about him, probably the first of its kind action in the generative AI space.

• Brian Hood, the mayor of Hepburn Shire, in Australia’s Victoria, has asked OpenAI to correct the offending information given out by the chatbot, news agency Reuters reported.
• ChatGPT claimed that Hood was found guilty in a foreign bribery scandal, which involved a subsidy owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s.
• OpenAI has in the past said the chatbot is given to errors as well as inaccuracies and even has a disclaimer on its website.

• As Reuters reports, If a user uploads an image, and types "cat", then the AI will recognise all the animals that match the description in the given photo.
• It can also be paired with other AI models, and can help with 3D reconstruction of objects from an image, or even use an AR or VR display to draw from.
• Meta has released both the AI model and dataset under a "non-commercial licence", which means they can be used for free, but not in commercial products meant for sale.

• France's data regulator said on Wednesday it had received two complaints about the AI program ChatGPT, as European authorities deepened their scrutiny of the chatbot days after Italy banned it.
• Italian regulators said last Friday that the firm had no legal basis to engage in massive data collection and questioned the way it was handling the information it had gathered.
• European authorities including those of France, Ireland and Germany have since approached their Italian counterpart to try to establish a common position on ChatGPT.