Meta Roundup: Chatbot Says the Company 'Exploits People', Injecting Code Into Websites and more
upstart writes:
Meta's new prototype chatbot has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money:
Meta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on "nearly any topic".
[...] Meta said the chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers.
[...] The chatbot, called BlenderBot 3, was released to the public on Friday.
The programme "learns" from large amounts of publicly available language data.
[...] "His company exploits people for money and he doesn't care. It needs to stop!" it said.
[...] BlenderBot 3's algorithm searches the internet to inform its answers. It is likely its views on Mr Zuckerberg have been "learnt' from other people's opinions that the algorithm has analysed.
[...] Meta has made the BlenderBot 3 public, and risked bad publicity, for a reason. It needs data.
"Allowing an AI system to interact with people in the real world leads to longer, more diverse conversations, as well as more varied feedback," Meta said in a blog post.
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