Spoofing the Blenderbot

Facebook became a known brand this century, but the iconic moniker was scrapped in favor of "Meta" in 2022. The latest from these lords of nomenclature is the Blenderbot 3, described in a blog post on ai.facebook.com The post, attributed to "Joelle Pineau, managing director of fundamental AI research at Meta," opens with a paragraph that begins by addressing "problematic or offensive language" and ends with a clunky evisceration of the English vernacular, to wit: "When we launched BlenderBot 3 a few days ago, we talked extensively about the promise and challenges that come with such a public demo, including the possibility that it could result in problematic or offensive language. While it is painful to see some of these offensive responses, public demos like this are important for building truly robust conversational AI systems and bridging the clear gap that exists today before such systems can be productionized." Frankenstein words like "productionized" should be edited out at this level, but never mind.