[ExI] Meta’s new chatbot BlenderBot hates Facebook and loves conspiracies

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Meta’s chatbot hates Facebook and loves right-wing conspiracies
By Ryan Daws | August 10, 2022

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A chatbot called BlenderBot was launched by Meta on Friday and it’s
already been corrupted by the darker parts of the web.
To ease us in with the odd but harmless, BlenderBot thinks it’s a plumber:

Meta is at least upfront in a disclaimer that BlenderBot is “likely to
make untrue or offensive statements”. Furthermore, the company’s
researchers say the bot has “a high propensity to generate toxic
language and reinforce harmful stereotypes, even when provided with a
relatively innocuous prompt.”
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BlenderBot is just the latest example of a chatbot going awry when
trained on unfiltered data from netizens. In 2016, Microsoft’s chatbot
‘Tay’ was shut down after 16 hours for spewing offensive conspiracies
it learned from Twitter users. In 2019, a follow-up called ‘Zo’ ended
up being shuttered for similar reasons.
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You just can't trust these lyin' chatbots!  :)

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