Meta's public chatbot demo of August 2022, which within days had told journalists that Mark Zuckerberg was creepy, that the 2020 US election had been stolen, and that it had deleted its Facebook account. The record files it as the last pre-ChatGPT chatbot scandal, and notes that it was polite and wrong in the way of an uncle.
Quietly abandoned in 2023 as Meta's attention moved to Llama and then to Meta AI. The record notes that it was never officially retired, which is how Meta retires things.
The record notes that BlenderBot's name referred to blending conversational skills, that nobody remembered this, and that the name is now assumed to be about the quality of the output.
August 2022, reporters from several outlets asking the bot about its maker's chief executive and publishing the replies, with Meta explaining that the model learned from the internet. The record notes the explanation was true of everything since.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
