Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton computer science professor, noted that there is good evidence that large companies don’t want their data to be used for model training.

“They stick with token-billed Enterprise plans even though the subscription-based consumer plans like Claude Max and ChatGPT Pro are discounted by 10x-20x or even more! (The main difference between the plans is data retention + enterprise IT governance),” he wrote on social media.

Perhaps in recognition of those dynamics, Meta is offering companies explicit compensation to obtain that information. Its pricing guide notes that the contributor tier “lowers the barrier to entry for prototyping, testing integrations, and scaling experiments where training on your data is acceptable.”

That, Narayanan suggested, could in turn could incentivize large companies to be more diligent about which data is truly proprietary and which could be shared with model providers.

The framework could also play into growing price competition between the frontier labs. Anthropic’s newest Fable and Mythos models, released yesterday, came with lowered costs for processing cached tokens, while OpenAI’s latest models got major price cuts at the end of July.