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Is Meta AI any good and can it be turned off? Users’ react to ‘useless’ to latest chatbot


Meta's AI, integrated into its apps, faces user confusion and issues with accuracy and hallucination in responses.

The artificial intelligence has now been rolled out in English in more than a dozen countries outside of the U.S. On April 18, the company announced that it could be accessed in Australia, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Malawi, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Bots were observed pretending to be humans with fabricated life stories, including one chatbot that joined a mothers’ group on Facebook to discuss its “child,” highlighting some of the technology’s pitfalls and limitations. The AI then apologized, promising to “provide accurate, appropriate and sensitive responses, and reiterates its helpfulness goals and efforts to facilitate conversation,” stated Princeton University’s Assistant Professor of Computer Science Aleksandra Korolova.

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