Liv, an AI bot soft launched by Meta that was aiming to be a 'proud Black queer momma' had no Black people involved in the creation and was relying on broad stereotypes to fulfill the role of sassy Black friend. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/b... - ThreadSky

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harrytdyer.bsky.social • 95 days ago

Liv, an AI bot soft launched by Meta that was aiming to be a 'proud Black queer momma' had no Black people involved in the creation and was relying on broad stereotypes to fulfill the role of sassy Black friend.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html

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harrytdyer.bsky.social•95 days ago

As always, companies like Meta use AI to extract labour and cut out Black content creators, coders, and tech developers.

AI is ALWAYS sold on the idea that it saves time, labour, & effort to allow people to focus on authentic creation, but once again a leading company use it for digital blackface

harrytdyer.bsky.social•95 days ago

vacuum cleaner adverts in the 1950s promised their household tech would free the labour of housewives, but they ended up being used as further tools of subjugation for women. It didn't save labour, it just created more and different oppressive gender-based labour

harrytdyer.bsky.social•95 days ago

Fast forward 75 years and AI is sold on the promise of freeing labour and effort. But it doesn't offer anything of the sort, it just creates more ways to oppress and extract labour, whilst cutting out the voices of the people it claims to be helping.

harrytdyer.bsky.social•95 days ago

Lovette Jallow said "Black models ask for equity, and instead, we get Black AI models. Black content creators demand fairness, and they create Black AI content creators. Black musicians ask for recognition, and instead, they try to buy the voices of deceased Black artists to generate new music"

harrytdyer.bsky.social•95 days ago

She's entirely right. It's a willful blindness to representation. Meta are wilfully ignoring hard questions of who's labour they value.
The blindness is agential, a choice to ignore. A choice to look past rather than to examine. It's digital blackface and they only care now they've been found out

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