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Meta’s BlenderBot 3 Chatbot Demo Made Offensive Antisemitic Comments

Occurred
Aug 7, 2022
Published
Aug 7, 2022
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

The publicly launched conversational AI demo BlenderBot 3 developed by Meta was reported by its users and acknowledged by its developers to have “occasionally” made offensive and inconsistent remarks such as invoking Jewish stereotypes.

Developers

  • Meta

Deployers

  • Meta

Harmed parties

  • Jewish people
  • BlenderBot 3 users

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Meta's BlenderBot 3 generated offensive antisemitic content, representing an LLM failure with notable controversy but no major legal or physical harm.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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