{"id":12212,"date":"2022-08-12T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/12\/you-can-turn-metas-chatbot-against-mark-zuckerberg\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:39:22","slug":"you-can-turn-metas-chatbot-against-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/12\/you-can-turn-metas-chatbot-against-mark-zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"You can turn Meta\u2019s chatbot against Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/11\/23301807\/meta-blenderbot-chatbot-ai-training-mark-zuckerberg-dislike<\/a>
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Meta\u2019s AI thinks CEO Mark Zuckerberg is as sketchy as you might \u2014 at least, if you ask the right questions at the right time. The BBC<\/a> <\/em>and other outlets like Insider<\/em><\/a> <\/em>have reported on their adventures stress-testing BlenderBot 3, the artificial intelligence chat tool Meta released last week<\/a>. As they note, it\u2019s easy to make BlenderBot turn against its creator, calling him \u201ccreepy\u201d or untrustworthy or even saying he \u201cexploits people for money.\u201d But that\u2019s not precisely an indictment of BlenderBot or <\/em>Zuckerberg. It\u2019s a funny reminder that most chatbots don\u2019t have straightforward, coherent opinions \u2014 instead, they\u2019re an interface for tapping into a vast library of online human thought.<\/p>\n

BlenderBot is a Meta AI experiment that\u2019s currently used for research purposes. As my colleague James Vincent explains<\/a>, it\u2019s trained on a large language dataset that lets it generate (loosely) human-passing responses to questions, including specific requests for factual information. The long-term goal is making a virtual assistant that can converse on a wide range of topics with factual accuracy. The short-term goal is putting BlenderBot in front of real people and, essentially, seeing how they might break it. And so far, that seems to include a lot of people making it say unflattering things about its owners.<\/p>\n

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