This is really grotesque. One of the most valuable companies on earth making a pretend character who does pretend charity work to drive up engagement. Grubby beyond belief.
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Alexandra Petri
everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there
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These are now essentially political lobbying organisations, as I understand it, so I’m not that surprised he’s out.
*they would say need
I’ve tried to explain a number of times on here for why they’re doing AI characters and why it could work for them (not defending it, I just recognise their thinking and motivations).
But this is just terrible in every way and will fail. Unless it’s some dark sentiment analysis…
https://bsky.app/profile/rezekjoe.bsky.social/post/3leu4cpwroc2y