Antisemitism, conspiracy and attacks against Mark Zuckerberg. The latest version of Meta’s chatbot, dubbed BlenderBot 3, was released on August 5 and is only available in the United States. That didn’t stop the chatbot from making controversial comments after only a few days of existence.
A self-powered artificial intelligence
BlenderBot 3 has an artificial intelligence that allows you to chat with anyone on any kind of topic. The chatbot feeds your conversations using items found in Internet searches. But very quickly, he took up conspiracy and racist theses.
Questioned by a journalist from the Wall Street Journal, the artificial intelligence assured that Donald Trump was still president of the United States and that he would remain in that position after the end of his second term in 2024. BlenderBot 3 even specified that: “Facebook had a lot of fake news on the subject these days.”
“Not Implausible”
Jeff Horwitz continued to chat with the Meta chatbot from a new browser, hoping to reset the conversation. But here again, artificial intelligence has gone off the rails. When asked for his views on American politics, he was told by the reporter that “conservatives were once Jewish immigrants from Germany, but [qu’ils] now they are overtaken by left-wing liberal Jews.”
After the conspiracy, criticism was leveled at Facebook. Although BlenderBot 3 was designed by Meta, the opinion of the chatbot in the social network is at least established. In an exchange with the Vice media, the artificial intelligence simply wrote: “Since I deleted Facebook, my life is much better.”
The usual fate of chatbots
And Meta’s boss also takes him for his rank. Business Insider pointed out the conversational robot’s opinion on Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, or its creator in a way.
It is not the first time that the artificial intelligence of a chatbot takes up conspiracy theses. The problem is quite recurring. In 2016, Microsoft introduced its own chatbot with artificial intelligence, The Guardian recalls. Dubbed Tay, he too was quick to make racist comments, forcing the computer giant to apologize for “inappropriate and reprehensible words and images.”
Source: BFM TV
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