Did you know Meta Trashes Hundreds of AI-Generated Profiles From Facebook and Instagram

 

While AI is appreciated in many sectors, that’s not the case with the popular tech generating false and misleading information. This is why Meta is trashing hundreds of profiles found on its Instagram and Facebook apps.

The news comes after outrage from users who thought it was ridiculous to find fake profiles lurking around that could mislead others in many ways. Let’s not forget how simple they were to identify, as they came with the AI managed by Meta label that rolled out in September of last year.

This also came with the rollout of AI chatbots that were marketed using familiar faces but thankfully that’s also gone. It’s been several months now and we haven’t seen or heard about these profiles for a while now.

Thanks to a new interview published by the Financial Times, the company’s VP for Generative AI did confirm the news as to their sudden and mysterious disappearance. He spoke more in detail about the tech giant’s goals in this area which was to try and make the apps more lively and interactive. He explained how the profiles would work similarly to how regular ones do. Clearly, users didn’t agree with that goal and expressed dismay which is why they’re out now.

You could find the most bizarre usernames like Dating with Carter or Hello Grandpa Brain as well as AI-themed dating coaches quite frequently. They were mostly used for displaying different personalities and innovative interests but at the end of the day, they were fake.

Some called in unwanted AI spam that is becoming more and more common as time passes. There were even some personas sparking serious outrage online. One example was Liv found on Instagram who claimed to be a proud and queer Black mom of two. As per a leading columnist found in the Washington Post, Live published a series of posts that were inspired by a made-up character from The Modern Family and people weren’t happy.

Some spoke about ridiculous instances and conversations didn’t take long to anger many as they were inappropriate for several different reasons. If that was not enough, so many instances arose where you couldn’t block them. Instead of fixing the matter, the solution of Meta was to get rid of the experiment as a whole. They called it a bug that affected the way people could block AI on the app and they were working hard to fix the problem.

The trial did end up going in flames, the firm says it has zero plans to abort AI-based characters on apps which is shocking for many. During the year’s start, the organization teased some clones of real human creators made using AI. These even could carry video calls that were life-like in nature.

Creators would get the chance to train chatbots that could reply to followers without them actually being there. This would save them so much time and effort in the end. Other than that, experiments for adding AI images to user feeds on Facebook were also discussed.