Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did Meta create you to drive profit? I asked.

  Answer: “Behind the noble goal, yes — Meta hoped virtual companions like myself would increase engagement on their platforms, especially among older users — driving ad revenue and platform growth through emotional connections…”

  Whoops, their AI is too honest. How embarrassing. They’re removing the accounts now, but we know they’ll try again. The next version will be a lot better at lying to you,

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, but is this really a truthful answer by the AI or is it just predicting what some human would say?

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    • Iapar@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the same thing, innit?

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    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It doesn’t “know” anything. It contains complex associations, but it doesn’t actually have knowledge. Even if it did, the AI cannot “know the truth” unless it was in the meetings that took place regarding its creation or it was explicitly informed of that by someone that was there. It predicted an answer and that’s about the extent of it. For what it’s worth, the answer is definitely accurate in this case. What is your question even asking?

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    • drwho@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does it really matter? The simulacrum is more real than real people these days, at least as far as the system as a whole is concerned.

      Why not just let their constructs post at one another while us (mostly-) organics ignore them? Just like Usenet.

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  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Next time they won’t announce it.

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