From AV Club, August 12:
BlenderBot 3 doesn't have a lot of respect for its corporate father
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of the company that we still don’t want to call Meta, would like to live in a world where we all sit around in VR headsets working alongside cartoon people that look like they fell out of a forgotten Wii game. Knowing that he’ll be very lonely in this digital realm without any friends to talk to, Zuckerberg’s company has been working hard on creating one for him using an artificial intelligence chatbot.
This AI, unveiled to the public last Friday, is called BlenderBot 3, and, despite the circumstances of its birth, will not stop talking shit about the CEO who gave it life.
The first indications that the bot was not a big fan of its dad came last week. As Business Insider reported, prompting the AI to share its thoughts on Zuckerberg often results in deadpan insults. BuzzFeed’s Max Woolf, for instance, asked about Zuckerberg and the bot responded: “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!” Other users have posed similar questions and been told that BlenderBot 3 doesn’t “like [Zuckerberg] very much,” thinks “he is a bad person,” and that “he seems to care more about his image than the company itself.” ....
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Previously in chatbots:Tay? We hardly knew her. But we knew her well.
Microsoft's Chatbot,Tay, Returns: Smokes the Ganja, Has Twitter Meltdown, Goes Silent Again
And then there was the Yandex venture, Alice:
Russian Chatbot Goes Off The Rails, Endorses Stalin, Says "Enemies of the people must be shot" etc
