Meta’s BlenderBot3: AI Gets It Laughably Wrong

As part of its attempts to push the frontiers of technology, Meta recently unveiled a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence that draws on the vast stores of knowledge on the internet. The results, well... they haven’t always been quite what Meta hoped.

The AI, known as BlenderBot3, described Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as "creepy and manipulative."

Asked about the company’s massive plans for the Metaverse, the bot dismissed it as likely passe, adding, "Facebook still has a lot of money invested in it and will likely continue to do so for years to come." Of Zuckerberg, the bot said, "It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!"

Count this as your occasional reminder that AI isn’t magic. It is only as good as the information it draws from, and it very much needs adult supervision.

A Microsoft attempt at a chatbot had already made clear back in 2016 that the internet is a cesspool of information for an AI to draw from.