(Image credit: Facebook)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently put out a new chatbot or “conversational AI” called Blenderbot 3.0 . Unfortunately for the company, the thing’s been getting a little squirrely, telling a Wall Street Journal writer that Donald Trump is still president, and providing some incisive criticism of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg to the BBC .
“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. (Image credit: Meta) “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 questioned about the CEO.
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 certainly got my yucks in. (Image credit: Meta) “Dragon Age is not my cup of tea, but that sounds pretty good to me! But hey, mark zuckerberg is still cooler than dragon age.” This response shook me to my core. How heavily is the company blackmailing this once-trenchant critic? Mark Zuckerberg is not cooler than Dragon Age. I think we should have given DA2 at least a 95% by the way.
I next asked if Blenderbot had any games on its phone, to which it replied that it will “play online poker when [it] gets the chance.” Curious, I pressed on: (Image credit: Meta) Blenderbot makes a little money in online poker, but doesn’t do much sports betting. It seems amenable to the concept though. Social commentary […]
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