Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies

[usonian]

Imitation of life:

As users began to sniff out some of Meta's AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.

by "10 white men, 1 white woman, and 1 Asian male"

Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots' sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails and even lie in chats with humans.

The issue emerged last week when Connor Hayes, a vice president for Meta's generative AI, told the Financial Times that the company expects its homemade AI users to appear on its platforms in much the same way human accounts do.

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In particular, there was "Liv," the Meta AI account that has a bio describing itself as a "Proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller," and told Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah that Liv had no Black creators - the bot said it was built by "10 white men, 1 white woman, and 1 Asian male," according to a screenshot posted on Bluesky.

Liv's profile included a label that read "AI managed by Meta," and all of Liv's photos - snapshots of Liv's "children" playing at the beach, a close-up of badly decorated Christmas cookies - contained a small watermark identifying them as AI-generated.

more unreal people at the link.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/538152/meta-scrambles-to-delete-its-own-ai-accounts-after-backlash-intensifies

[Bread and Circuses]

1. They made friends for Zuck, because he has none. Fail!

[Intractable]

2. More reasons to avoid Facebook.

I've never had an account.

[Renew Deal]

3. I can't imagine who at meta would think this is a good idea, and then who approved it.

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But whoever it is, they should be fired. Everyone involved, from the people that thought of it, to the people that enabled it should be gone.

[RockRaven]

4. Zuck thought so, and he ain't firing himself.

[hunter]

8. I figure they are training them as customer service reps.

They'll be the "person" you talk to after your health insurance claim is denied.

Idiocracy, here we come...

[Renew Deal]

10. I have less of a problem with that if it's transparent.

Putting fake people on Facebook kind of defeats the purpose and is in the territory of what Ashley Madison was doing.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick

[Aussie105]

6. So how long before these NotPeople

start recommending (advertise) certain consumer items and political attitudes?

Meta is fake enough as it is.

[usonian]

7. When a product is free

You are the product.

[Blue_Tires]

9. FFS