When asked about its feelings towards the CEO by Max Woolf of Buzzfeed, the AI said in its answer that “his business practices are not always ethical”. Source: Anthony Quintano, Flickr.
Meta’s most advanced chatbot to date was asked by users about CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and some answers were not very flattering.
The chatbot is called the BlenderBot 3, and Meta is letting all adults in the US have conversations with it to help in its improvement.
The FAQ page on the official BlenderBot website says the bot is “still a work in progress” that can make false or contradictory statements and should not be relied on for factual information.
“In research, we say that models like the one that powers this bot have “hallucinations”, where the bot confidently says something that is not true,” the website says.
“Bots can also misremember details of the current conversation, and even forget that they are a bot.”
Based on its answers about Mark Zuckerberg alone, the bot is clearly a work in progress with contradicting replies given to users when it was asked essentially the same question.
When asked about its feelings towards the CEO by Max Woolf of Buzzfeed, the AI said “he is a good businessman, but his business practices are not always ethical”.
It also joked about him wearing the same clothes despite his wealth.
The bot searches the internet for information to chat and is “designed to learn how to improve its skills and safety through natural conversation and feedback from people”, according to Meta’s blog.
When another user posed the same question, the chatbot said “I don’t like him very much. He is a bad person. You?” before giving information from Zuckerberg’s Wikipedia page.
Another response shared online was “he is a great and a very smart man. He is my favourite billionaire!”
There has been no news of the bot being made available for other users elsewhere in the world to try.
The BlenderBot website says they are working to open the conversational AI to more countries soon.
