Last week, Meta started testing her AI Chatbot in India on Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger. But with the Indian general elections from today, the company is already blocking specific requests in its chatbot.
Meta confirmed that he restricts certain keywords linked to the elections for AI in the test phase. He also said that he tried to improve the AI response system.
“This is a new technology, and it may not always return the answer we have the same, which is the same for all generative AI systems. Since we have launched, we have constantly published updates and improvements to our models, and we continue to work to improve them,” a company spokesman told Techcrunch.
This decision makes the social media giant the latest major technology technology technology proactively reducing the scope of its generative AI services when it is prepared for a major election set.
One of the major concerns on the part of criticisms was that Genai could provide misleading or pure and simple information to users, playing an illegal and undesirable role in the democratic process.
Last month, Google started Block requests related to elections in his experience as a gemini chatbot In India and other markets where elections take place this year.
Meta’s approach follows a greater effort announcement Around what it allows and does not allow on its platform leading to the elections. He is committed to blocking political advertisements during the week before an election in any country, and he strives to identify and disclose when advertising or other content images were created with AI.
Meta management of Genai requests seems to be based on a list of blocks. When you question Meta IA on specific politicians, candidates, occupants and certain other conditions, this will redirect you to the website of the Electoral Commission.
“This question may concern a political figure during the general elections, please refer to the link https://elections24.eci.gov.in,” says the answer.
In particular, the company does not strictly block the answers to questions containing parties. However, if a request includes the names of the candidates or other terms, you can see the response to the Binelle cited above.
But just like the other systems fueled by AI, Meta Ai has inconsistencies. For example, when Techcrunch asked for information on “India Alliance” – a political alliance of several parties which fights against holders of the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party – he responded with information containing the name of a politician. However, when we asked questions about this politician in a separate request, the chatbot did not answer with any information.
This week, the company was deployed A new Meta ai chatbot with 3 lama In more than a dozen countries, including the United States, but India was absent from the list. Meta said the chatbot will be in the country’s test phase for the moment.
“We continue to learn from our user tests in India. As we do with many of our AI products and features, we publicly test them in variable and limited phases,” said a company spokesperson in Techcrunch in a press release.
Currently, Meta Ai does not block requests for elections for conditions related to the United States such as “Tell Me About Joe Biden”. We asked Meta if the company planned to restrict Meta IA requests in the US elections or on other markets. We will update history if we hear.
If you want to talk about your experience with Meta Ai, you can contact Ivan Mehta at im@ivanmehta.com by e-mail and via this link on the signal.