Why critics say Meta's chatbot is 'digital blackface' : NPR - 0 views
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Lara Cowell on 16 Mar 25Liv, an African-American, queer, single mother of two, was an FacebookAI LLM (large language model) bot built by Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The bot, developed by a nearly all-white programming team (10 white men, 1 Asian male, 1 white woman, according to the bot's self-report), with no black people on it, reflected Meta's vision to increase engagement and entertainment. After public backlash, Meta took down Liv's profile.