Here’s my column on Meta’s black queer AI character Liv and the crappification of the internet: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... - ThreadSky

karenattiah.bsky.social • 53 days ago

Here’s my column on Meta’s black queer AI character Liv and the crappification of the internet:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/08/meta-ai-bots-backlash-racist/

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babouc.bsky.social•53 days ago

Posted the WaPo piece to my small coterie of amiable subversives on FB and Spoutible. Thank you for this - eerie as hell, yet somehow also amusing as you have dissected the poor bot.

1peegee.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thanks, Karen. This was some sort of crazy that I was not expecting. It’s time for the good people to jet from the Mets run sites. They are bad actors.

midwesternmama.bsky.social•53 days ago

Super important article! Everyone must read! This is what’s in store in TechBro-land.

thatsoleelee.bsky.social•53 days ago

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wolfofodin.bsky.social•53 days ago

Fantastic work! You are absolutely right that no one wants or needs this.

They troupes like Kwanza and friend chicken actually angered me to read.

wolfofodin.bsky.social•53 days ago

I wish Bezos wasn’t such an asshole so I could read it.

pegmelchior.bsky.social•53 days ago

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debsinsb.bsky.social•50 days ago

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verityplayer.bsky.social•53 days ago

Good lord.
How hard would it have been to find some black lbtq+ lasses for this project??

kmacsthoughts.bsky.social•53 days ago

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jokeefe28.bsky.social•53 days ago

This was just a great, and terrifying, article. My prior company was overly-eager about implementing AI and I feel, well validated :-) .

kastronut.bsky.social•53 days ago

Great article Karen. I’m glad they took Liv down after you and other journalists exposed its unauthentic sass.

maggiepye.bsky.social•53 days ago

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dskamper.bsky.social•53 days ago

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darthsbro.bsky.social•53 days ago

It would be great to get you on a podcast.
@mikahsargent.com show be a great one or @pivotpod.bsky.social

kramersus.bsky.social•53 days ago

I don't see any point in creating these AI characters. I don't want a made up chatbot trying to talk to me. It's bizarre enough with some of the Real People-- we don't need a fake person trying to please us based on algorithms.
This was quite the eye opening interaction. Thanks for capturing it.

kramersus.bsky.social•53 days ago

I can't wait to read this.

ellemette.bsky.social•53 days ago

Excellent column! I read it aloud to my household this morning. Thank you for it.

karenattiah.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thank you so much!

waffle64.bsky.social•53 days ago

My favorite thing about the Washington Post is the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" tagline hovering above articles that you can't read unless you pay money to turn the lights on.

micheil.bsky.social•53 days ago

“Crappification”? Smdh

It’s enshitification. Don’t make up a wannabe term. That’s basically plagiarism.

FFS, glad I cancelled my WaPo subscription.

sutherla.bsky.social•52 days ago

The #crappification of the Internet, called on the #Bezos #WaPo

pegmelchior.bsky.social•53 days ago

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liznugent.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thank you.

karenattiah.bsky.social•53 days ago

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amarten.bsky.social•51 days ago

Thank you for sharing the exchange. I am not surprised and truly horrified.

laurabeverage.bsky.social•53 days ago

This is truly, unbelievably awful. Good for you pulling back the curtain on this ridiculous iteration of AI, and may they never learn to to better.

trynbniceok.bsky.social•53 days ago

thanks. technical point: not exactly 'free' if one has to give an email address 'sign up' in order to read it. not your fault of course. but 'not exactly free' to be accurate.

philliefan99.bsky.social•53 days ago

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry after reading it.

kramersus.bsky.social•53 days ago

A "must read' for everyone. You won't believe this slippery AI character and how it tries to "relate" to Karen.
We do NOT need this in our lives.

mennlinn.bsky.social•52 days ago

@markhurst.bsky.social
Pretty interesting "exchange" with a Meta ai.
No surprise how putrid these bots really are.

markhurst.bsky.social•52 days ago

Yep I mentioned the bots in passing on Monday's show but this transcript really underscores the problems

emmessenn.com•53 days ago

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mrfresh.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thank you for the gift link. I wanted to read it earlier but paywalled.

marylandrockets.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thank you for posting this.

I cancelled my subscription of over 40 years this week.

I shan’t be reading WaPo anymore.

debsinsb.bsky.social•50 days ago

Oh no! Don't cancel WaPo. It's because they included her Op Ed piece that Meta was called out. Cancel FB and Instagram if you want to protest and migrate over to Blue Sky.

laspates.bsky.social•53 days ago

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debsinsb.bsky.social•50 days ago

Thank you for great investigative reporting and calling out the arrogance of tech giants thinking that cultural appropriation is a cool idea for AI characters.

borjita.bsky.social•53 days ago

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laniet.bsky.social•53 days ago

Could someone please gift this article to Bluesky. Thousands of us have unsubscribed to WaPo.
Thank you!

thawen.bsky.social•53 days ago

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kasparknusper.bsky.social•53 days ago

Sorry that you have to work at the Washington Post.

hermitqueenjude.bsky.social•53 days ago

i’d love to educate myself and read your article but it is, as always, behind a paywall i would never cross. but you got yours so that’s what matters

sheersocial.bsky.social•53 days ago

If you REALLY wanted to educate yourself instead of throwing shade at the author, you’d Google the topic. Plenty of sources here and online addressing this topic. The truly educated don’t rely on one source for information.

kaeriani.bsky.social•53 days ago

Super rude and unfair statement to an author. Congrats on your superior moral values. Some people can't just "go find a new job" whenever they feel like it.

debsinsb.bsky.social•50 days ago

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bamwonky.bsky.social•53 days ago

My sub to WaPo runs out in March, I'll be spreading gift links til then: https://wapo.st/4a8XBM2

marjoriemorgan.bsky.social•53 days ago

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gspeng.bsky.social•53 days ago

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heidireinberg.bsky.social•53 days ago

Hey, Karen — would love to read it. Any chance you can gift it?

karenattiah.bsky.social•53 days ago

Here you go https://wapo.st/4a8XBM2

heidireinberg.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thanks so much!!!!

heidireinberg.bsky.social•53 days ago

I was following the exchange on Bluesky, as well as Parker's, so it's very interesting to read your analysis of the whole thing.

Thanks much.

jeffmcmorrough.bsky.social•53 days ago

Thank you for sharing your excellent work.

What a depressing and frightening world they are creating.

kimnoreen.bsky.social•53 days ago

Cannot understand why people didn't leave the Catholic church when they learned priests were raping children and other priests were covering up for them. I feel the same way about people staying on Twitter and Facebook. Don't understand.

debarg316.bsky.social•53 days ago

2 reasons for me. Well,3. Birthday reminders. FB memories. And FB is what the dog rescue I work with uses.

But I sure post and interact a LOT less with it.

kaeriani.bsky.social•53 days ago

1. Use and maintain an online calendar with yearly repeating entries
2. Download all your photos and posts (photos probably most memorable) and import into Google or Apple photos. You'll get memory reminders again/still
3. Encourage them to use something else. There are all kinds of alternatives.

nippymobisto.bsky.social•53 days ago

And Washington Post . . 😒

traceyny.bsky.social•52 days ago

With you. I can’t live with supporting a company that just this week decided 1) trans ppl can be called “it” 2) women can be referred to as property 3) it’s totes cool to say lgbtq ppl are mentally ill. It’s disgusting and unconscionable and it’s making me see friends who’re staying differently 🙁