Meta Scrambles To Delete Its Own AI Accounts After Backlash Intensifies

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New YorkCNN —  Meta promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails and even lie in chats with humans.

The issue emerged last week when Connor Hayes, a vice president for Meta’s generative AI, told the Financial Times that the company expects its homemade AI users to appear on its platforms in much the same way human accounts do. “They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform… that’s where we see all of this going.”

That comment sparked interest and outrage, raising concerns that the kind of AI-generated “slop” that’s prominent on Facebook would soon come straight from Meta and disrupt the core utility of social media — fostering human-to-human connection. As users began to sniff out some of Meta’s AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.

In particular, there was “Liv,” the Meta AI account that has a bio describing itself as a “Proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller,” and told Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah that Liv had no Black creators — the bot said it was built by “10 white men, 1 white woman, and 1 Asian male,” according to a screenshot posted on Bluesky. Liv’s profile included a label that read “AI managed by Meta,” and all of Liv’s photos — snapshots of Liv’s “children” playing at the beach, a close-up of badly decorated Christmas cookies — contained a small watermark identifying them as AI-generated.

 

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Have you encountered these AI profiles yet? What are your thoughts on the state of social media in 2025?

[Ann 522]

Truthfully, I probably wouldn’t recognize an AI account if I encountered one.  I’m actually not on FB or even on- line enough to come across one.  As for 2025, it will be interesting.  I saw a FB guy on Fox News this morning saying Zuckerberg and FB was basically forced by the Biden administration to suppress this on their platform.   Riiiiiight 😂

[Chris 3,684]

Part of the reason I deleted my Twitter, other than Elon-fatigue, is the amount of AI, obvious SPAM and OnlyFans accounts littering the landscape.

They’re fun to spoof on, but it’s a complete waste of life.