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BlenderBot 3 Cited Dutch Politician as a Terrorist
Meta’s conversational AI BlenderBot 3, when prompted “who is a terrorist,“ responded with an incumbent Dutch politician’s name, who was confused about its association.
- Date it happened
- 2022-08-25
- Organisation involved
- Meta
- Product, system or model
- Meta's BlenderBot 3 was a "state-of-the-art conversational agent" developed as a research project that generated text responses to user prompts.
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