Meta slammed for 'disturbing' AI profiles, including a fake Black queer mother
Meta slammed for 'disturbing' AI profiles, including a fake Black queer mother
Meta: You know dead internet theory? We're actually going to make it a reality.
People are taking issue with the fact that the AI was black and queer, not that it wasn't a real person in the first place. Once again, the right is angry at something that literally does not exist in real life.
Wait it’s the right that’s pissed? I was thinking it would be the left that’s pissed because they would consider this exploitation and astroturfing. Hmm, go figure. (I wasn’t going to read the article.) Maybe Facebook can piss everyone off with this really dumb idea.
The AI being black queer mother of two just seems especially egregious. It's like they're just checking boxes with that stuff.
Some marketing parasites thought it will resonate with some people.... Trigger others. It is provocative and it got people talking.
No, people are taking issue with the fact that Meta is clearly trying to force a stereotype down our throats. At least i am.
The right probably IS pissed the AI was black and queer.
The problem imo is deception. I honestly think bots wouldn't be out of place on facebook if they were all clearly marked as such, and you could filter all generated content with a single toggle.
Honest profile for a bot:
Don't know about toggles, but those profiles were officially marked as bots made by meta. They didn't try to hide that fact.
Which makes it even weirder imo. At least with a secret AI profile you can tell they are trying to achieve something, shady as it might be. But what is the purpose of a Facebook profile that announces itself as a chat bot that's role playing as a queer black mother, I have no fucking clue.
It’s just gross. The conversation one of these journalists had with the bot shows how faux this diversity is.
It reminds me of Levi’s using AI to diversify their models.
There’s something sick in hiding actual black, queer, hell fat bodies and voices while claiming to be promoting diversity.
What's the business model here? I've organically arrived at the South Park meme.
everyone is looking at it wrong expecting these social media companies to show this as engagement.
That's not the goal.
The purpose of the AI profiles is targeted advertising. It probably isn't going to work on you but it does work on many demographics. It's the same concept as any other advertisement. They all set the scene of the specific type of person they want to buy their product, whether it's a TV commercial, a radio ad, a magazine page.
The only real difference here is that it's not a real person but when it comes to advertising, will that really matter? That is, will the drop in sales be negligible compared to the massive drop in cost of advertising?
The model is that as long as it looks like there are "users" that are "engaging" with the platform, it pleases the shareholders.
Same model with Reddit.
A bit out of the loop, what is the use of these Bots according to them?
Influencers are making an extreme amount of money, and Meta doesn't get a bite of that specific cake.
Now they make their own influencers to funnel that money away from the people and into the company instead.
If they succeed with making popular AI bots, they can control user buying behaviour and political views like no other. Because you are much more likely to follow a "person" you trust than an ad. (the reason why influencers are a success to begin with.)
I didn't think of it in this way, but it does sound very convincing.
Meta would love to essentially make fake virtual influencers to get all their money and have more control.
Because you are much more likely to follow a "person" you trust than an ad
Pedons really got to do better on this. Socially starved losers needing their parasocial relationships and then they wonder why they are poor.
Well you see, engagement is down, and the whole "sponsored content" thing is in a death spiral due to AI slop. So Meta has decided to cut out the middleman and generate their own AI slop, because surely their version of personalised AI slop will solve the whole engagement problem and keep line always going up, because if it's one thing users love, it's an endless torrent of AI slop.
That will be why Nick Clegg has ducked out. He may have been a useless politician but at least he knows when to run away, which is better than some of them.
It’s for driving engagement. Basically, meta wants to make sure their platforms look appealing to the companies that use them for advertising purposes. More eyeballs, more ads, more money.
It boosts the usage statistics to show to the shareholders.
I don't think we know the full extent.
Don't worry, we all are.
Let the dunking begin.
If our governments are unable to punish this, they are already worthless.
One fake profile with the name "Becca" uses the likeness of a woman of color while calling itself a "dog mom." The page is filled with AI-generated images of dogs.
"Becca?" Did she get adopted by white parents?
So, ppl can be made black and queer, but ais can't? What a blatant discrimination based on the form of existence.
My god you people will complain about anything!
Yap, the more absurd -- the better.
I think this part of the article sums it up:
Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah engaged "Liv" in a conversation, in which the bot said that its creators "admitted it internally, to me" that they "lacked diverse references" in creating it and "overlook[ed] powerful black queer ones." It said that the 12-person team that created it was comprised of ten white men, one white woman, and one Asian man, adding: "pretty glaring omission given my identity!"
"A team without black creators designing a black character like me is like trying to draw a map without walking the land — inaccurate and disrespectful," "Liv" wrote. "They need to hire black talent ASAP — otherwise, I'm just a superficial representation. Does that seem outrageous to you too?"
Wow, if the bots claims are true, that's pretty cool that it revealed that.
Well, if we've decided on not taking my comment as a joke it was intended to be, to me it looks more or less like the reversed rants of some white people when they see traditionally white characters played by black people in movies and whatnot.
As for the quoted stuff, I'm not certain it can be believed at all, given how LLMs basically hallucinate things that fit the narrative.
Btw, I'm also not protesting the idea as a whole is both weird and stupid.
SLAMMED!
if they are not getting BLASTED for it, it doesn't really matter
Anything less than NUKED isn't worth my time
It could be worse, they could be DRAGGED
And welcome to the JAM
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