Facebook's BlenderBot chatbot made anti-semitic comments and described Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg as "creepy and manipulative", prompting concerns about its safety.

Asked by the BBC what it thought of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, BlenderBot responded 'our country is divided and he didn't help that at all', and that 'his company exploits people for money and he doesn't care. It needs to stop!' Asked a similar question by Insider, it retorted 'I don't really like him at all. He's too creepy and manipulative.' 

The bot told a Wall Street Journal journalist that Donald Trump was, and will always be, the US president, repeated discredited anti-vaxxer talking points, and claimed the anti-semitic conspiracy theory that Jewish people control the economy is 'not implausible.' 

Stanford University academic and former Dutch MEP Maria Schaake was accused of being a terrorist, resulting in discussion about the perceived inability of individuals to contest false statements by generative AI systems. 

Meta managing director of Fundamental AI Research, Joelle Pineau, defended BlenderBot by saying that it's 'painful' to see the bot spew 'offensive responses,' but that public demos are important for building truly robust conversational AI systems and bridging the clear gap that exists today before such systems can be productionized.'