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

Post by notavalleyman » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 10:12 PM UTC

noirbot wrote: post #34

arresin wrote: post #2

> Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people It’s such a weird religion.

Religion? Isn't the weirdness here that someone at Meta seems to have decided that they should make an AI bot that proudly announced its identity, despite literally not being proud, queer, black, or a mother? Who does this serve? Why? I could see a bot that's into fitness or some other hobby having a niche as a wrapper around an AI meant for advice on the hobby, but there's a certain crazy hubris to going "this LLM c…

Post by troupo » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

loeg wrote: post #345

jedberg wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having worked at a similarly gargantuan and dysfunctional company, I can tell you exactly how this went down. Someone had this idea for AI profiles. They speced the product and took it to engineering. The engineers had a good laugh at how preposterous it is, but then remembered that they get paid a ton of money to do what they're told, and will get promos and bonuses for launching regardless of the outcome. It all st…

You're kind of missing the early step where some executive had to sign off on this dumb idea. Otherwise it doesn't launch. It's only "impactful" to engineer performance review because some exec said so.

Post by thephyber » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 10:18 PM UTC

loeg wrote: post #345

jedberg wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having worked at a similarly gargantuan and dysfunctional company, I can tell you exactly how this went down. Someone had this idea for AI profiles. They speced the product and took it to engineering. The engineers had a good laugh at how preposterous it is, but then remembered that they get paid a ton of money to do what they're told, and will get promos and bonuses for launching regardless of the outcome. It all st…

You're kind of missing the early step where some executive had to sign off on this dumb idea. Otherwise it doesn't launch. It's only "impactful" to engineer performance review because some exec said so.

Post by crakenzak » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 10:20 PM UTC

crmd wrote: post #290

tomalaci wrote: post #186

You know what AI profiles I want more of? Clueless grandma/grandpa that accepts scammer calls and waste their time. Such as UK's O2 Daisy: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-gra...

There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

Post by bee_rider » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

kromem wrote: post #353

Having bots have their own profiles authentically engaged as themselves would have been pretty interesting (and I suspect successful). But making up fake minority stereotype bingo cards may have been the worst idea I've ever seen in AI to date.