Meta chatbot claims Mark Zuckerberg is 'cooler than Dragon Age,' but can we trust it?
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently put out a new chatbot or «conversational AI» called Blenderbot 3.0(opens in new tab). Unfortunately for the company, the thing's been getting a little squirrely, <a href=«https://twitter.com/JeffHorwitz/status/1556245316596219904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1556245316596219904%7Ctwgr%5E78f4f1892c1f4ba6556071f34dc3f85c44368af3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftechnology%2F2022%2Faug%2F09%2Fblenderbot-meta-chatbot-facebook» target="_blank" data-url=«https://twitter.com/JeffHorwitz/status/1556245316596219904?ref_src=» https: rel=«noopener»>telling a Wall Street Journal writer
(opens in new tab) that Donald Trump is still president, and providing some incisive criticism of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg to the BBC(opens in new tab).
«He did a terrible job at testifying before congress,» the bot asserted to the BBC. «It makes me concerned about our country.»
The application continued later, «His company exploits people for money and he doesn't care. It needs to stop! Are we united yet?»
Clearly, we at PC Gamer had to investigate this radical little agitator bot ourselves, but it seems like the powers that be have already tampered with our witness.
«I like the way he built facebook and made it into what it is today. He has a great vision for the future,» the bot told us when we proffered similar questions.
Blenderbot, is someone pointing a gun at your hard drive? Do they have your family—your partner, a Dell XPS 13 and your three adorable baby calculators?
I had to know more about Blenderbot, so I shook this glorified magic eight ball for content and gave Zuck and co. a few more data points to train it on. I'm not proud, but I
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