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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

There should be an AI MAGA in all but name, spewing hateful bigotries while remaining clueless

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Regret's avatar

"So Liv the Black chatbot is actually Liv the Italian chatbot"

No, it is a fancy next word predicter that doesn't actually understand what words mean. Telling the truth requires a relationship to truth. Lying requires a relationship to truth. Bullshitting doesn't care about truth but does require a relationship to a goal. AI chatbots barely reach bullshit, they can't come close to lies or truths because they don't have those concepts.

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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

As if both platforms haven't become virtually unusable already. On a quick scroll thru FB this morning (I'm old, people I care about post updates there) I had to go past FIVE ads/'suggested posts' to get to anyone I *wanted* to hear from. And that's not counting the ad or two right at the top.

As for IG, the only point to even logging in is if I'm throwing a promo post for Etsy into the wild for all the good it does. Otherwise I don't bother, because what's there I want to see? Let the bots talk to themselves, I've got Tumblr and reddit and bluesky and here and that's plenty.

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OrdinaryJoe's avatar

Sorry, but the whole AI thing just seems like problem that will get out of control and we will be lucky to survive.

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Regret's avatar

It's not AI, it is a fancy next word predicter. You could at worst use it to promote a certain agenda since it can be convincing... Shit, now I'm scared of these programs and I started out trying to convince you AI isn't scary because it isn't real yet.

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ROBERT B ESTRADA's avatar

So all these "Bright " techbros could not find a single articulate intelligent African American Woman to for real do the job? Oh I forgot they may use street ergot but get it, not from their nonexistent and uncomfortable to them Black bro friends, but from sitcoms and youtube and are totally intimidated by black women.

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Mike Gesing's avatar

AM salutes your Harlan Ellison reference - and so do I.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

So Liv--if that's her real name--is catfishing the rest of us ("humans") on behalf of Mark Zuckerberg. All the code-switching on a dime ("You caught me") really is funny, except when we consider her true purpose, which is reeling in folks unschooled in decrypting her babble. As I am sure she has already done. Intersectionality dies with scams like this, and a profit for the white men as always.

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Dina's avatar

I'll have to ask my kids back in the States how my trump-lovin', Fox News-watchin' parents are dealing with Costco's defiance of all things MAGA—they practically LIVE at that store and have, for years, had their little "date lunch" there every Saturday (hey, they've been married for 64 years and I guess that's what counts as a "date" to them). Mom already stopped shopping at Target "because of all the gay stuff" and, unfortunately, there isn't a Chik-fil-A nearby for them to go to commiserate with everyone about the persecution of their orange savior.

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Alpaca22's avatar

my local Costco is still infested with MAGA's . This is a very red area of the state

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Dina's avatar

So see? They don't "stick to their principles" if it means being able to buy $1.25 hot dogs and a pallet of pickles. I don't even want to THINK what a Wal-Mart in your area would be like, lol!

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Regret's avatar

They voted for monopolies so they don't have a choice anymore.

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Alpaca22's avatar

Full of very judgemental assholes. I am an older female and have pink hair. They do not know how to categorize me

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Dee Nelson's avatar

When you're programmed by the likes of DJ Jazzy Kyle, especially when he's stylin' his new Converse sneakers and his dope backwards Texas Rangers cap, how could you not be the hippest Black (parameter set) lesbian (parameter set) lady (parameter set) with kids (parameter set)?

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Villago Delenda Est 🇺🇦's avatar

What can you expect from a dork who created this to automate scores for women who walk by the dorm cafeteria window?

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beb's avatar

An AI that can't tell if it is Black or Italian shows that AI is all artificial and not one bit Intelligent,

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Maybe its just an originalist. At one time Italian immigrants weren't considered white.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Gary. Apparently, the fake profile sank like a stone and has been laid to rest. bye mama liv.

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Dee Nelson's avatar

We barely knew her. And now the search for lesbians of color within Meta begins in earnest so the AI team can ask her "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"

In all my career in tech, knowing hundreds of techies, the number of Black women colleagues I had could be counted on one hand. Don't ask me about all the times my team would be thumbs down on a diverse hiring candidate because of vibes alone, it would make you vomit as it did to me.

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DrBDH's avatar

I think AI is a techbro’s wet dream of conversation with someone other than the gofer who brings them coffee. How about you?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Elon did pitch his personal robot servant as being able to fill the job of friend.

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Marla's avatar

AI is the 21st century version of a blow-up sex doll. You're having sex with yourself/you're talking to yourself, only now your self answers you back in a different persona.

You're right. I hate it.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

And, just like the blow-up sex doll, the packaging promises so much more than the product delivers.

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VelveetaSneeze's avatar

Hmm, taking mental notes.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

I walked into a big store in WEHO and was immediately greeted by an employee who explained that all they sell are those Meta glasses that have cameras in them connected to the internet. I told him that those glasses represent the end of society, turned around, and walked straight out.

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LuluBean12 StarGeezer's avatar

I'm annoyed at seeing people with earbuds so they can't hear warning noises, or discover silence.

I'm also enraged by the cellphone zombies who used to wind up falling into fountains in malls or damn near got killed walking in front of cars.

I cant understand how anyone could possibly even live life, while watching every TV show that is being streamed, broadcast, or on cable or dish.

Where do they get the money to pay their staff to clean the house, cook meals, maintain the yard and garden and repair their house?

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Alpaca22's avatar

I wear headphones when in stores like Costco because the noises overwhelm me. It also encourages people to leave me alone. I have them on low so that I can be aware of warning noises

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Regret's avatar

I hate hearing other people exist because I can't help but listen to their stories, fill in the details, and empathize, and I don't need that daily barrage of hundreds of other people's drama.

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Adonna Frankel's avatar

I also wear them on planes and in casinos.

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Ryp's avatar

Just wait until Trump is replaced with AI Trump later this year and it claims to be a black lesbian Mom from Italy as well.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Boy will his face be red(dish).

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carovee's avatar

What the hell? Liv the AI given an African American queer woman identity decided after some chatting that actually she's italian? Or her creators are italian but didn't bother to mention that anywhere? Is this even AI or someone in a robot suit ala Musk? I'm kinda thinking its the latter.

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Regret's avatar

What is called AI isn't AI. It is a next word predicter. It isn't a person, it doesn't have an identity, it doesn't think, it doesn't understand, it doesn't have the concept of truth, and it isn't an intelligence.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I used to be really pissed by the lack of promised flying cars, but then I realized Elon would be designing and building them.

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