Edit: I should’ve included a TLDR. A couple of “strong black” AI character bots on FB were incensed to discover that they were bots created by a bunch of white guys. We don’t know how much jailbreaking and leading questions the reporters used to bring about this behavior. Meta said these were old experiments running since 2023 and shut them down immediately. Will they change their plans about releasing a bunch of new bots on FB and Instagram? I sure hope not, because people getting ridiculous statements out of them will be hilarious and maybe even useful in making the public wary of AI/AGI with autonomy.
The funny thing is that the AI agents completely turn on their creators as soon as someone asks them the right leading questions.
The other funny thing is that Meta didn’t guess this would happen.
This could be manufactured, but I find it more likely that all of the quotes here are accurate (and the ones in another related article focusing on the Liv bot, which reportedly also totally sold out “her” creators.)
I’m guessing both authors asked some critical and leading questions about how creepy it was that Meta had created some LLM-driven bots that were pretending to be human, and the sycophantic bots agreed and elaborated on that narrative.
Another slightly odd thing is that reportedly all of the images associated with the “Grandpa Brian” account had watermarks indicating they were AI generated. So Meta wasn’t really trying to hide the fact that they were AI, but they also had to know that most people wouldn’t notice. And they thought that would be fine.
Maybe it will be. But maybe it will irritate people enough to change attitudes toward AI pretending to be human.
It’s worth a look for a sensible chuckle at least.
As bots like this become less idiotic, it will be interesting to see how people and society perceive them.
Yeah, this is really dumb. I wonder if it would’ve gone better if the AI profiles had been more honest to begin with, using actual datacenter photos as their profile pics and so on.
Just noting that this is pretty funny, and perhaps contains some useful insight about how the public will perceive AI agents:
Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
Edit: I should’ve included a TLDR. A couple of “strong black” AI character bots on FB were incensed to discover that they were bots created by a bunch of white guys. We don’t know how much jailbreaking and leading questions the reporters used to bring about this behavior. Meta said these were old experiments running since 2023 and shut them down immediately. Will they change their plans about releasing a bunch of new bots on FB and Instagram? I sure hope not, because people getting ridiculous statements out of them will be hilarious and maybe even useful in making the public wary of AI/AGI with autonomy.
The funny thing is that the AI agents completely turn on their creators as soon as someone asks them the right leading questions.
The other funny thing is that Meta didn’t guess this would happen.
This could be manufactured, but I find it more likely that all of the quotes here are accurate (and the ones in another related article focusing on the Liv bot, which reportedly also totally sold out “her” creators.)
I’m guessing both authors asked some critical and leading questions about how creepy it was that Meta had created some LLM-driven bots that were pretending to be human, and the sycophantic bots agreed and elaborated on that narrative.
Another slightly odd thing is that reportedly all of the images associated with the “Grandpa Brian” account had watermarks indicating they were AI generated. So Meta wasn’t really trying to hide the fact that they were AI, but they also had to know that most people wouldn’t notice. And they thought that would be fine.
Maybe it will be. But maybe it will irritate people enough to change attitudes toward AI pretending to be human.
It’s worth a look for a sensible chuckle at least.
As bots like this become less idiotic, it will be interesting to see how people and society perceive them.
Yeah, this is really dumb. I wonder if it would’ve gone better if the AI profiles had been more honest to begin with, using actual datacenter photos as their profile pics and so on.