Meta’s new chatbot can convincingly mimic how humans speak on the internet — for better and worse. In conversations with CNN Business this week, the chatbot, which was released publicly Friday and has been dubbed BlenderBot 3, said it identifies as “alive” and “human,” watches anime and has an Asian wife. In one case, the chatbot reportedly said it had “deleted my account” over frustration with how Facebook handles user data. The colorful responses from BlenderBot show the limitations of building automated conversational tools, which are typically trained on large amounts of public online data. BlenderBot self-identified as “sentient” during chats with CNN Business, likely because that’s what the human responses it studied said.

Source: CNN August 12, 2022 15:19 UTC