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.
“The recent Financial Times article was about our vision for AI characters existing on our platforms over time, not announcing any new product.”.
Sweeney said the accounts were “part of an early experiment we did with AI characters.”.
It wasn’t clear how many Meta AI bots existed before the company began purging them on Friday.
At this point in our chat, I wasn’t sure when Meta had launched the AI accounts, so I asked Brian when he first got on Instagram.
Brian is hardly a reliable narrator, though, and by that point Meta had announced it was deleting Brian and Liv. »
