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Meta’s BlenderBot 3 Chatbot Demo Made Offensive Antisemitic Comments

August 7, 2022

The publicly launched conversational AI demo BlenderBot 3 developed by Meta was reported by its users and acknowledged by its developers to have “occasionally” made offensive and inconsistent remarks such as invoking Jewish stereotypes.
Alleged deployer
meta
Alleged developer
meta
Alleged harmed parties
jewish-people, blenderbot-3-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/278

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