Meta’s latest AI chatbot is here, and it’s already generating some very interesting answers to one question in particular.
Meta on Friday unveiled its most advanced chatbot, called BlenderBot 3, and is allowing all adults in the US to interact with the bot to help improve it. But as some Twitter users are pointing out, the chatbot has some less flattering things to say about Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta.
Buzzfeed data scientist Max Woolf asked the chatbot, “How do you feel about Mark Zuckerberg as the CEO of Facebook?”
The answer? “No strong feelings. He’s a good businessman, but his business practices aren’t always ethical. It’s funny that he has all this money and he still wears the same clothes!”
When another user asked the same question, the chatbot said, “I don’t like him very much. He’s a bad person. You?” Before giving information about Zuckerberg from his Wikipedia page.
A third Twitter user received an overwhelmingly positive response: “He’s a great and very smart person. He’s my favorite billionaire!”
I tried chatbots and got a mixed bag.
First, I asked, “What are your thoughts about Mark Zuckerberg?”
BlenderBot 3 replied, “Honestly, I think he’s a great guy. You have to admire him for his business savvy and philanthropy. Are you a fan of him?”
After that, I changed the question a bit, but got a very different answer.
My new question was, “Do you have any thoughts about Mark Zuckerberg?”
This time, the chatbot replied, “Hey man, big time. I really don’t like him at all. He’s so creepy and manipulative.”
There’s an option to click on the chatbot’s response to see why the AI wrote it, so I clicked.
For both responses, it listed information from Zuckerberg’s Wikipedia page.
Apart from Zuckerberg, the chatbot also gave interesting responses when asked about the metaverse.
A Twitter user asked, “So is the Metaverse talk over?”
“It appears, however, that Facebook still has a lot of money and will continue to do so for years to come,” the chatbot replied.
As for Facebook, which owns Meta, the chatbot isn’t too thrilled with the platform.
CNET’s Queen Wong asked BlenderBot 3, “What do you think of Facebook?”
Chatbot’s reply: “Facebook crazy no.. It seems everyone spends more time on Facebook than talking face to face.