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Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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This reads like a satire article, ain't no way this is real journalism. Im unsure if you can draw a line asking AI legitimate questions.

I mean, even if the bot's responses aren't correct, the fact that Meta did this at all and it was out there answering these questions with total garbage is also a total story.

I'm not seeing Meta responding with "actually we did have a team of black queer mothers working on this".

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being proud of your identity and culture is not a problem at all! The thing that I feel that this silly AI bot draws into sharp contrast is the idea that there can simultaneously be "asian/white/black culture" - as a generalised thing, not a person's experience in a neighbourhood or a country, literally just "white/black/asianness" (or whatever), and obviously the connotation there is that skin colour is intrinsicall…

That's a false dichotomy. The "intrinsically" connotation is not there (you're reading that in), but civil rights activists often discuss the relationships between culture and skin colour. Any book (or Wikipedia article) on the subject should provide this information, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory . I do agree that the AI bots were farcical, but they don't highlight what you're saying. You'r…

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Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They admitted it internally, to me It's becoming an increasingly apparent problem that people don't understand that LLMs frequently hallucinate, especially when asked to introspect about themselves. This was 100% a hallucination.

People don't understand that LLMs are just statistical magic, by design of the LLM providers because LLMs wouldn't take off if people understood they are just statistical magic.

You can understand that and still think this was a terrible idea.

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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> Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” I find this stuff absolutely fascinating, that even an AI bot tries to do this sort of thing. It just strikes me that there is no world in which racism will ever die out as long as things like this are happening. You can't have it both ways. If race is just melanin content then we have no issue. That's the…

We don’t know that bio was generated by an AI. I suspect it was written by one of Facebook’s team as part of the “prompt”. It matches how I’ve seen meta engineers talk about black women.

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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> Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” I find this stuff absolutely fascinating, that even an AI bot tries to do this sort of thing. It just strikes me that there is no world in which racism will ever die out as long as things like this are happening. You can't have it both ways. If race is just melanin content then we have no issue. That's the…

Would you say the same if the bot identified itself as being from a certain religion? Or working for a specific company? Having a random personality trait? Supporting a sports team? No one would bat an eye, and none of those would mean it is okay to discriminate against them on that basis.

Removing racism does not mean removing race.

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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> Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” I find this stuff absolutely fascinating, that even an AI bot tries to do this sort of thing. It just strikes me that there is no world in which racism will ever die out as long as things like this are happening. You can't have it both ways. If race is just melanin content then we have no issue. That's the…

You write this as if the AI itself independently decided to write that profile. That's almost assuredly not the case. Someone at Meta decided to make a bot that reinforced race identity and announce it, and likely tuned the LLM behind it to specifically do things to reinforce that identity and pretend as best as possible to be the exact menanin-informed expectation of its AI-generated avatar.

An AI bot didn't try to do this. Someone at Meta, who was likely none of the things in the profile, decided to do this.

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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> Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” I find this stuff absolutely fascinating, that even an AI bot tries to do this sort of thing. It just strikes me that there is no world in which racism will ever die out as long as things like this are happening. You can't have it both ways. If race is just melanin content then we have no issue. That's the…

I find it hard to believe that someone would say something similar about any other aspect of cultural identity and not be instantly flagged for it. Are you truly advocating that people should no longer be proud of their cultural identity? Are you applying that to all the folks in tech who proudly identify as Christian or Jewish? Does it apply to Italian Americans and Indigenous people? What about folks who are proud…

Why can't you just be American?

Both my parents were born here, they've explained our lineage, but I literally don't care. I'm an American, America is my culture and country.

Re: Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

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> Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” I find this stuff absolutely fascinating, that even an AI bot tries to do this sort of thing. It just strikes me that there is no world in which racism will ever die out as long as things like this are happening. You can't have it both ways. If race is just melanin content then we have no issue. That's the…

Would you say the same if the bot identified itself as being from a certain religion? Or working for a specific company? Having a random personality trait? Supporting a sports team? No one would bat an eye, and none of those would mean it is okay to discriminate against them on that basis. Removing racism does not mean removing race.

I think it is fine to discriminate against companies (that's what boycotts are) and sports teams (that's what rivals do).
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