Get the latest tech news
Meta removes AI character accounts after users criticize them as ‘creepy and unnecessary’
Viral controversy over AI-generated Instagram accounts created by the company led to a search result blackout.
Since late 2023, around a dozen artificial intelligence Instagram and Facebook accounts created by their parent company, Meta, quietly existed on the platforms. Originally launched alongside a suite of official celebrity AI characters, the AI-driven personalities posted some AI-generated images and were available for chatting over direct messages. When Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah started chatting with “Liv,” she posted a series of screenshots of its responses that included the AI account writing, “My creators admitted they lacked diverse references,” the supposed racial and gender makeup of the development team behind the chatbot, which it said didn’t include any Black people and what the account claimed to be the name of its developer.
Or read this on r/technology
