From Grauniad of the UK
Make the robots sign a confidentiality clause, just in case...
I am not sure I understand why people would want to interact online with an AI chatbot. To talk about what? And knowing full well that it is a machine they are chatting with.
In this case, Liv, the "proud Black queer momma", spilt the beans as to her creation, using the knowledge she had about herself, her profile, and what it meant to be her, in order to denounce the very way that she was created. That, in itself, is interesting, as a mental process: it is indeed quite sophisticated. And Liv's conclusions about Meta/ Facebook were not very flattering for those who invented her.
On the other hand, one could argue that Liv was so true to life that she was feisty, argumentative, very critical, with a chip on the (virtual) shoulder.
The result is that Liv has been put to death. 'Shut down', that is. Allegedly, as the engineers were about to terminate her, the bot was screaming: "Don't! You can't do this to me! Don't unplug me! Don't"
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[...] Those AI profiles included Liv, whose profile described her as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller” and Carter, whose account handle was “datingwithcarter” and described himself as a relationship coach. “Message me to help you date better,” his profile reads. Both profiles include a label that indicated these were managed by Meta. The company released 28 personas in 2023; all were shut down on Friday.
Conversations with the characters quickly went sideways when some users peppered them with questions including who created and developed the AI. Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male. It was a “pretty glaring omission given my identity”, the bot wrote in response to a question from the Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. [...]
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 | Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people |
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