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

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Most AI tools allow you to opt-out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it.

For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, it is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who “contribute” to the development of future models by sharing their prompts and model outputs.

While one million input tokens under a standard agreemeent costs $1.25, under the contributor pricing model they cost just $.10. For output tokens, the standard price is $4.25 per million, but that same million costs just $.20 under the contributor model.

Meta has had a rough time trying to obtain training data: An initiative to track the computer usage of its employees, launched earlier this year, attracted wide internal criticism and was pausedin June. The company didn’t...

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