Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by notavalleyman on Saturday January 04, 2025 @05:06PM
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The article indicates that it was one of 28 personas created by meta. However, the reporters in between the story and you, thought that one would be interesting to you and so promoted it's relevance. In actuality, if you rolled a dice of potential human traits 28 times, this could be a statistically normal combination
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Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by devjab on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:15PM
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Can you explain why it is you think that makes it any better? I can think of no argument that would make this particular persona anything but a tremendously stupid idea. Even if it was one in a thousand personas it would almost certainly be found and singled out by articles like this one.
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by notavalleyman on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:20PM
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> how on earth did the issues with this not become obvious for the team?
I haven't reviewed the context of all 28. But if "the team" were trying to do this rationally: perhaps they'd use census data to weight human characteristics and roll 28 dice. We might not expect more than one of 28 to end up as "queer black mom" but it's not necessarily "woke bait" or "rage bait" for one of 28 to land on those squares. Perhaps it was a logical way of assigning traits?
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by devjab on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:50AM
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I don't think it's woke or rage bait. As I said I think it's no real world experience and no common sense and I'm frankly amazed that nobody in a SoMe/advertisement organisation didn't consider how the world would react.
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by Jerrrry on Saturday January 04, 2025 @05:53PM
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Lol 1 outta 28 isn't a black queer mom of two.
The clash of these characteristics is what defy and define these unlikely odds.
This is trolling rage bait. Like most big corp content.
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by notavalleyman on Saturday January 04, 2025 @06:17PM
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I'm not sure if you're joking but your comment expresses it backwards - according to the op article, meta made 28 such bots. One of those bots had the insta profile tagline "queer black mom". In between meta's creation of the 28 and the story arriving on your dinner plate, someone decided to focus the coverage on that one of 28. They thought it would be interesting to people and clearly were right
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by int_19h on Saturday January 04, 2025 @11:52PM
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What they're saying is that the odds of such a combo are far less than 1 in 28 IRL.
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by notavalleyman on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:01AM
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How did you determine that?
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by int_19h on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:58PM
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I'm not OP and I have no idea what the actual odds are. But, well, only 15% of Americans are black to start with, and obviously only half of those are women - and at that point we're already down to 1 in 14. So, unless every other black woman is a queer mom, there's no way it's 1 in 28.
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by notavalleyman on Sunday January 05, 2025 @10:35PM
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If you were trying to mimic a distribution of Instagram users, and you rolled the dice 28 times, it's not unreasonable that this combination of traits could be expected one twenty eighth of the time.
This is birthday paradox logic, not census logic
Re:Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Face...
by Bobbyddxxd on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:48AM
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A birthday is only one metric that the people in the school share. This is five variables.. So no..