MetaFB's New AI Chatbot Makes Fun Of Daddy Zuck

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“Since deleting Facebook, my life has been much better”

Yep! This is what MetaFB's new AI chatbot said to the Vice reporter Janus Rose.

• Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has unveiled its chatbot for the Metaverse. BlenderBot3 was announced with the tagline: "An AI Chatbot That Improves Through Conversation.

Warning! However, to me, this looks like it's going to be another dangerous experiment with AI self-learning bots. Remember Tay?

¡Buenos Dias Tay! Remember when Microsoft tried this back in 2016? They launched an AI self-learning chatbot called Tay. It promised to “learn” from its “conversations” with humans on Twitter.

• Within 24 hours, Tay had become sexist and homophobic. Tay repeated inflammatory remarks like “Hitler was right”, “feminism is cancer”, and “9/11 was an inside job”.

¡Adiós Tay! Microsoft pulled Tay within 24 hours and issued a public apology.

Deja Vue: Now Mark Zuckerberg is giving it a go. But it’s not worked out so well as BlenderBot3 hasn't been so kind to its dad.

BuzzFeed: When Max Woolf asked BlenderBot3 about Zuckerberg. It responded with: “No strong feelings. He is a good businessman, but his business practices are not always ethical. It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!”

WSJ: In conversation with Jeff Horwitz of the Wall Street Journal, it insisted Donald Trump was still president and would continue to be “even after his second term ends in 2024.”

Vice: BlenderBot3 made clear that it’s not a Facebook user, telling Vice’s Janus Rose that it had deleted its account after learning about the company’s privacy scandals. “Since deleting Facebook my life has been much better,” it said.

• Other responses from BlenderBot 3 include: BB3 doesn’t “like [Zuckerberg] very much,”. The bot thinks “he is a bad person,” and that “he seems to care more about his image than the company itself.”

But my favourite report was on the BBC.

BBC: When the BBC interviewed the bot it said that Zuckerberg “did a terrible job at testifying before congress." It went on to say that his behaviour makes BlenderBot 3 “concerned about our country,” and that “his company exploits people for money and he doesn’t care. It needs to stop!”

👏 I couldn't have said it better myself!

About BlenderBot3: MetaFacebook announced BlenderBot3 on the 5th Aug with the tagline: "An AI Chatbot That Improves Through Conversation."

We'll have to see about that!

Asking For It: In the PR, MetaFB said "we're releasing a new AI research project called BlenderBot 3, a chatbot that can search the internet to talk about nearly any topic. We're also sharing our BlenderBot 3 model, data and code with the scientific community to help advance conversational AI."

Which was instantly taken as an invitation to see who could make it say the most stupid thing!