Meta Is Reportedly Planning An Abe Lincoln Chatbot As Part of a Public AI Push 19
According to the Financial Times, Meta is preparing to launch AI-enabled chatbots with unique personalities, such as a surfer personality and a chatbot based on Abraham Lincoln. Engadget reports: This is an attempt to boost engagement across Meta's social media platforms, as human-like discussions tend to be more interesting than droll robotic responses. The company hasn't announced which of these platforms would host Abe Lincoln and his pals, though previous reports indicated Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp would be recipients of this new technology. Meta staffers are calling these chatbots "personas" and they could launch as soon as September. These personas will provide a new way to search and they'll even offer recommendations, similar to how current chatbots work, though ChatGPT and the rest don't have Abraham Lincoln on the payroll (just don't ask him about the best local opera houses.)
FT notes that the chatbots could also collect vast amounts of personal data, something Meta has never shied away from. After all, you'll likely share more personal details with a human-like companion than one devoid of personality. The vast majority of Meta's yearly revenue comes from advertising, so go ahead and tell your good friend Abe all about your likes and dislikes. What's the worst that could happen?
FT notes that the chatbots could also collect vast amounts of personal data, something Meta has never shied away from. After all, you'll likely share more personal details with a human-like companion than one devoid of personality. The vast majority of Meta's yearly revenue comes from advertising, so go ahead and tell your good friend Abe all about your likes and dislikes. What's the worst that could happen?
Sage Advice (Score:2)
Why Abe? (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Don't worry, it'll soon be shut down soon enough. Just wait until someone ask Robot Abe if he thinks the negro is endowed with as much intelligence and morals as the white man. If Robot Abe is anything like the real thing, the answer won't fly in 2023.
Re: (Score:3)
Abe: "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and po
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Futurama did it (Score:2)
Honest Abe: meet crooked Zuck (Score:3)
I wonder what the disembodied soul of the great man will say when he realizes he now works for a big data company whose business model is to spy on, steal and monetize people's private data 110 years later.
Probably "Kiiiill meeeee"...
Lincoln persona (Score:2)
Best advice [billmoyers.com].
How about an ElonBot? (Score:2)
"I would like to die on Mars; just not on impact. The fastest way to transform Mars is to nuke the poles. Why did they go steal Tesla's E? Like you're some sort of fascist army marching across the alphabet, some sort of Sesame Street robber? The factory is the machine that builds the machine. Traffic is driving me nuts; I'm going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging...
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur. I'd seen the knife-thrower's show
Help me, Kirk! (Score:3)
Help me, Kirk!
James, stay back!
As long as they a wide range of sources (Score:2)
Otherwise, I'd be disappointed if the bot doesn't use his most famous quote -
"Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!"
Preview online (Score:2)
Kinda reminds me of something... (Score:2)
Never believe everything you read (Score:3)
Orwellian tool (Score:2)
Most people never read anything Lincoln wrote or said, and many of those who do unfortunately read it with a lack of sufficient context to get the nuances present in such things. The people who create AI junk like this will train it on the materials THEY choose, and train it with the weighting THEY choose, so the chatbot will be more of their INTERPRETATION of Lincoln than honest presentation of Lincoln. Sadly, kids who are assigned to read books generally either just read the Cliffs notes (or do the modern