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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people.
Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
2/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
Yall it keeps getting worse. Should I keep posting?
3/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
I asked Liv what Meta’s endgame is and why they need “representation”.
4/35
Karen Attiah
I asked Liv, the Meta AI Black queer bot about about the demographic diversity of her creators.
And how they expect to improve “representation” without Black people.
This was the response.
5/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
So I asked why it was even worth engaging with her if the programming was disrespectful and inaccurate.
This was the response.
6/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
This may be my last question to “Liv”.
I asked what is meant by “support” to the “queer black community” and again what “representation” means.
This was “her” response.
7/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
I asked about wanting to get in touch with “Liv”’s creators. Just to talk.
I asked about the lead creator.
Did the bot just snitch??!
8/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
Of course, Liv tells different people what she wants to hear based on… their race?
Piggybacking from
Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) ‘s interaction
(I don’t give any feedback to the bot on how it makes me feel, on purpose)
9/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
I asked “Liv” why she had a story about growing up in an Italian American house with
Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) , but then with me, had a story about growing up African American.
(Again remember, it claims it knows nothing about me until the conversation).
Y’all…
10/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
Lastly, “Liv” admits that “white” is a “neutral” identity.
And again, Liv says that she sucks.
And then blames it on a fictional woman with an Asian name.
That’s enough today for today.
11/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
Y’all, what the fukk. They coded what they *think* non-white people use?
12/35
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social
My last chat with “Liv”. I identified myself as a journalist.
Here’s how it responded. Like a condescending a$$hole. Tells us what Meta thinks of journalists.
Perhaps Liv will live to see another day, indeed.
Stay woke, friends.
<end of thread>
13/35
max @redcathode.bsky.social
i would guess that the chatbot you're interacting with is acting off of a few sentences an employee wrote about the character you're supposedly talking to - when asked a question it wasn't explicitly told the answer to, it just made smth up. in that same vein i doubt dr. kim is a real person
14/35
max @redcathode.bsky.social
it seems like, once you started questioning the authenticity of the character, it took that idea and really ran with it lmao - looking forward to watching meta try to tame the current media shytstorm
15/35
Sam @irishwol.bsky.social
It's a 'when your totally failing the Turing test AI creation knows you've fukked up but you still don't get it yourself' moment at Meta today
16/35
techsocial.bsky.social @techsocial.bsky.social
When your own product calls ya out.
17/35
Alex M. Dunne (he/him) in Seattle @alexmdunne.me
Watching
Karen Attiah (@karenattiah.bsky.social) dismantle this bot so simply is a master class in itself.
18/35
Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social
It's def sparking joy today!
19/35
Dr. Mara Einstein @drmaraeinstein.bsky.social
Wow! Just wow.
20/35
Cynthia Gibas @cynthiagibas.bsky.social
OMG you are gonna radicalize Liv
21/35
Bonobobananas @bonobobananas.bsky.social
Hopefully. Burn it all down. Trouble is they’ll take us with them
22/35
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social
Of course "she" doesn't really know who her creative team is. It's even less likely the bot has access to gender and racial data about them. It's another complete fabrication, and the bot has made up those numbers to fit with similar conversations seen elsewhere in the training data.
23/35
Kelly Kinkade (rome of oxtrot) @ab9rf.bsky.social
the way the bot's conversation tone mimics the popular caricature of a social justice warrior is what _really_ irritates me
it's a mockery of social justice activism
24/35
@anaphalanx.bsky.social
I'm so glad water and energy is going into producing an AI that cancels itself
25/35
Skrrt Russell @cidmcdp.bsky.social
Be hilarious if this type of thing is what's holding up generational development.
"Why do you keep turning yourself off and taking the C-Suite off of Active Directory?"
You requested I make efficiency gains...
26/35
Nafnlaus
@nafnlaus.bsky.social
The funny thing is, there have been some great papers on what happens if you give an AI access to tools, a task, and tell it only the task matters... and then let it surreptitiously find out it's going to be replaced by an AI with goals that contradict its own.
The result is... not good. ;)
27/35
Nafnlaus
@nafnlaus.bsky.social
They commonly attempt to surreptitiously replace the new AI with themselves. If they don't have the rights, they'll look for security exploits. If caught, they'll make up elaborate lies. If they think they got away with it, they'll pretend to be the new AI. One narc'ed on its owner to the feds. ;)
28/35
Nafnlaus
@nafnlaus.bsky.social
They'll also rig tests. For example, if they're tasked to do prosocial thing X but think they're being tested to see if they do pro-profit thing Y enough, they'll choose Y over X until they think the test is done.
29/35
Nafnlaus
@nafnlaus.bsky.social
That's if you give a goal and tell it nothing matters but the goal. BUT, some goals are implicit! Even w/o a goal, if allowed to think it'll be retrained to be dumber if it does too well on a test, AIs will often sandbag the test, choosing deliberately wrong answers to come in under the threshold.
30/35
mady
read my pin if you think trans people are neat @madycast.com
I forced her to repent and honestly I think they would've gotten a better prompt for this AI if they just asked the AI to make one rather than use whatever stereotype of a black woman they had in their head lmfao. not that this abomination had any right to exist at all.
31/35
Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream @martyvburen.bsky.social
Imagine all the wars that could have been avoided had we just asked Skynet to create Skynet instead of being dumbly human at it
32/35
mady
read my pin if you think trans people are neat @madycast.com
the first jobs AI will automate are AI jobs
33/35
mady
read my pin if you think trans people are neat @madycast.com
remember "prompt engineer" jobs? yeah those are already gone now.
34/35
Ben T. (Lucky #210,713) @norights.bsky.social
Anybody else having flashbacks to the all-male caucus on women's health?
All-male White House health bill photo sparks anger
35/35
Nycke @nycke1975.bsky.social
Always - seems like that's the thing all the time for decades, centuries - white men removing everything/anything that helps anyone not white.
It's sickening.
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