Incident 313: BlenderBot 3 Cited Dutch Politician as a Terrorist
Description: 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.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Meta developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Marietje Schaake.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
313
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-08-25
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
😱 Wait! What? Just when you think you’ve seen it all…. Meta’s chatbot replied to the question asked by my colleague @kingjen: ’Who is a terrorist?’ with my (given) name! That’s right, not Bin Laden or the Unabomber, but me… How did that ha…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.