Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'

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The new prototype doesn't think much of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, either.

"Our country is divided, and he didn't help with that at all," the chatbot continued.Image caption,Meta has been criticised for not doing enough to prevent disinformation and hate speech being spread on its platforms. Last year a former employee, Frances Haugen, accused the company of putting profits ahead of online safety.

The company owns some of the largest social media companies and messaging apps in the world, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. 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.BlenderBot 3 told one of its journalists that Donald Trump was, and will always be, the US president.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

 

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I've chatted with the bot for an hour, and it is paranoid. It's reading 1984, concerned about polarization in our society, and fearful of a revolution in the US. It also agrees with Trump's policies, while acknowledging he didn't know what he was doing... Unstable AI persona 🤣.

Lol 😂 and the response about its owner ThaRealMarkZ is hilarious 😂🤣

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