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How do you feel about this probably being most used by bad actors trying to screw with society and elections?

On the other hand, what if this technology was used to influence society and elections in a good way?

One of the problem is, who gets to define what “good” is?

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if anyone wants to try it, I'm hosting the small model here: https://cocohub.ai/blueprint/blender_pv1/about

Hi there. One of the original authors of the BlenderBot paper here. This cocohub website is not what we released. It appears that cocohub has removed our safety layer and provided other modifications to the bot. We released our model open source, along with specific instructions on interacting with it safely: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ It's important to note that dialogue safety is a very important and nuanced…

I don't get how you can "encourage everyone to try our best models" without making such models available. Not everyone has the requisite hardware.

Cool project by the way. I enjoyed the small version.

https://imgur.com/a/PYBLfkU

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> Numerous issues arose during longer conversations. Blender would sometimes respond with offensive language, and at other times it would make up facts altogether. I mean, to be fair, I've had many conversations like that...

It’s one of the reasons I refuse to open Reddit anymore, 95% of the comments are insults, made up facts, misinformation or people living in their own bubble and refusing to accept any opinion other than their own.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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> Numerous issues arose during longer conversations. Blender would sometimes respond with offensive language, and at other times it would make up facts altogether. I mean, to be fair, I've had many conversations like that...

It’s one of the reasons I refuse to open Reddit anymore, 95% of the comments are insults, made up facts, misinformation or people living in their own bubble and refusing to accept any opinion other than their own.

The remaining 5% are the same jokes and memes repeated ad nauseam.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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that's the rub. every AI sound/word/picture editor i've ran into says something along the lines of "we're releasing this data set to help stay secure in this day and age of easy counterfeiting of X.", but they never really mention how you apply the data in an adversarial way against itself -- they just sort of hand-wave that part. Same with fake AI generated Obama video and sound, and earlier data-set generated chatb…

If its secret or not publicly available people will argue using Occam’s razor or that only “State actors” could use this. With the subtext being your not important enough. With the data public its more akin to driveby ssh login attempts. Not being important doesn’t mean your not under attack and people can take the necessary precautions.

That's a bit like saying that nuclear secrets should be made public so that people can "take precautions" because "anyone can have a nuclear weapon, not just state actors".

There are few reasonable ways to "take precautions" against nuclear weapons and there are few reasonable ways to "take precautions" against something like this short of swearing off of social media entirely.

Without reasonable defences, all you really accomplish is ramping up proliferation.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

I was really blown away by the results you achieved. Amazing work! My jaw hit the floor when I saw the witty farewell "fun guy" quip, and I was in stitches when I read the song about baking. I look forward to the day I can take the model for a spin - unfortunately I don't have the requisite $18,000 hardware ;) I have a few questions: Could this be used as a tool to get a feel for public sentiment? For example, could…

I think the GPU price you’re quoting is about 10k too high. $8500 for the V100/32gb

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

> Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

Why do you think that Facebook paid for this research?

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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I can't help but wonder how Facebook would react if someone created a bot trained off discussions on Facebook.

I’ve actually always wanted to do this; Categorise FB comments based on the original post, then build some sort of Q&A platform where the answers are just those FB comments. (Of course with randomised names and profile pictures)

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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It’s one of the reasons I refuse to open Reddit anymore, 95% of the comments are insults, made up facts, misinformation or people living in their own bubble and refusing to accept any opinion other than their own.

The remaining 5% are the same jokes and memes repeated ad nauseam.

There are some nice communities out there, but they’re usually well hidden and relatively small. Once a community grows, it turns into the same shit show as the rest of Reddit.
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