Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
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Hold up, you can a convince a chat bot to say something bad about you and then sue that company into giving you a job?
What the fuck is happening right now?
We're in the dumbest possible timeline.
We're in the only timeline.
That doesn't disprove my statement.
No, but it knocks a little wind out of the sail.
Not even a little.
OK, but it's a really weird - and I think unhelpful - way for people to keep framing reality. Like we're trying to pretend it's just some story.
Yes, it doesn't help that it's an incredibly cliche piece of terminology.
If there's only one time line, and you assert that it is the dumbest time line, it follows that it is also the smartest time line. Thereby rendering the statement null. Its not unproven, but neither does it matter.
That is a good example of talking to say nothing imo
Are you sure?
As sure as anyone can be.
For all purposes as far as affects anyone here, yes.
Meta is one big scam is what I‘m taking away from the last decade.
Just hold on a minute here, are you telling me that the real estate in the metaverse that I have mortgaged is not a sound investment?
Oh yeah. Whatever happened to the metaverse? Are they still trying to make content?
its mostly bots, driven by russian propaganda from russia. that is what reddit is replicating right now. FB is REDDITS endstage eventually.
zuckerborg is bending the knee to orange menace, its the androids way of placating the king.
I’m about to get real mean to people still on FB/insta. Wtf will it take for you people to say no to a shitty social media website?
A lack of pictures of my extended family.
Videos of my nieces figure skating are the primary reason I haven't deleted my account
Try to get them to text them instead. Giant family text chains are a lot more fun (and chaotic) than generic social media.
Yeah, text of his niece figure skating is the same thing as a video. Solid advice!
You can put videos in a text thread. I’m on a 31-person thread that has been active for about 15 years. I promise there’s no shortage of videos.
Do your text messages allow for decent res video of any running time longer than a few seconds?
Mine don't.
By "text" here, do you mean Apple chat, SMS, or some other platform?
no that matters a lot. if it's imessage only it makes sense but if it's a combination of mms/rcs/imessage, someone is going to get images consisting of like four total pixels.
What the fuck I was asking a genuine question
email exists and isn't run by the worst people on earth
Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail are all run by dirt bags.
Those aren't the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.
I haven't seen any real evidence to that effect. Shy of handing your bank number to scammers, the "Don't use your computer to do X, use it to do Y" consumerist internet activism never seems to impact anything. How Big Tech actually does business seems driven by FinTech investment far more than user engagement.
Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There's the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)
If you accept that, it's a small step to "They benefit from having more users on their platform". More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one's going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook's going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren't on there.
Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.
Yes. But I believe it is harmful because of the way it has been leveraged to crowd out the public sector and strangle competitive private alternatives. It has become one wing of a massive tech sector cartel.
That doesn't logically follow. No more than saying "Building more highways is bad for the environment, ergo the highway administrators benefit from having more cars on the road." You're looking at a problem of induced demand and concluding the problem is on the demand-side of the equation.
It's one node in a massive web. And it's easy to say "Well, you have to do your part because ". But mostly it's just some random asshole on the internet telling me not to use my telephone because AT&T is run by a richer set of random assholes. There's no material benefit to me and no collective coordinated action that I'm seriously participating in.
Pretty sure you can download that stuff if you want to save it. I could be wrong, though. I deleted FB, Insta, and all that jazz at the start of the dictator’s first term.
Just wait until you learn how many leftists are still on Xitter even after
202420202019201820172016 when it was Trumps main outlet to win the election.Don’t forget about TikTok.
I quit fb and Twitter the first time Trump got elected. I knew what was happening
"Non-biased AI" = Very right-wing biased AI
"free of bias" has always meant "unacknowledged right wing bias"
"Fair and Balanced" Fox News tag line for years
They got rid of that in 2017. And Google got rid of "Don't be evil" a year later.
Zuckerberg is such a coward.
He bends over backwards for even the slightest change in wind, like VR or a fascist govt. He dropped open-weight llama at the first experimental stumble.
Mark my words, if a mega liberals got into power, he’d fire this guy and act as woke as can be.
It's not cowardice, it's intentional. He wants a timeline where techno-lords with divine authority oversee their vassal states and nations are a thing of the past. Bending over for a fascist party is the fastest way to get there.
I honestly think Zuck is more of a coward than the Palantir CEO and that techno feudalism crowd. He’s just so obviously insecure in all his decision making it’s unreal.
If he was a coward he would never have hired Joel Kaplan.
Joel Kaplan was a Bush toady who participated in the Brooks Brothers riot.
I love the irony of people trying to make there AI's not gay.
BROTHER
TURING WAS GAY THE GODFATHER OF COMPUTERS.
oh the irony
I made a gay hulk Hogan AI voice the other day. Checkmate
I really wish I could delete my Facebook and Instagram, but my late brother's account is on both and I really miss him. I try to do my part by not making content for the machine nor interact with the platform and only go on when I really miss my brother
Backup the account webpage, then delete the account. There exists software that freezes web pages as is, as downloadable archives.
the singlefile addon for firefox
the singlefile addon for firefox
Damn near impossible if you drive a shitbox, Facebook groups are where you get car parts :/
My struggle for years has been quitting WhatsApp…
I never started using it. It's the cancer version of messaging.
I sometimes get weird looks from people when I tell them I refuse to use it.
Signal is the way to go.
Man, I so wish I could do that. I felt I was finally in a position where I could leave once and for all. No groups for work or study stuff, just family and several mostly unused contacts. Surely my family would choose Signal rather than lose all contact. Then I got myself into a volunteering thing, and I need WhatsApp again (for groups and 1-on-1)
I quit everything except whatsapp, it's virtually impossible without actually impacting my life negatively. Been trying and some friends have started using Signal, but most people don't.
I guess it's all about choosing what each of us deems worse. "Do I want a saner life even if it means not having some convenience, or is this change going to mess with my life for little benefit?".
7 years ago I told everyone I was leaving WhatsApp and moving to Signal on day X. Some installed signal and we started using that exclusive, some others didn't, and we stopped chatting, just did phone calls.
Fast forward to today, most of the people in my life use Signal, some of them exclusively to use it with me, and the rest, I haven't missed (they call every now and then though).
It is a scary move, 100%, but well worth it, in my opinion.
Yeah in my experience I've been able to use regular texts, discord or signal instead. People will accept at least one most of the time
I feel like a lot of the anger at transexuals is because men don't want to be confused as women
The ones with femine features who rely on their clothing and social norms to be identified as a man.
If all I saw was the thumbnail, I probably would have unintentionally misgendered this piece of shit. They treat women like property so their main concern is if someone treats them like a woman.
So they insist on a strict adherence to gender norms to avoid people confusing them with what they consider to be "lesser"
Reactionaries decry "identity politics," because it's literally all they have; they're the ones pushing to make their list of prescribed identities the only socially acceptable ones.
They loathe women who jump their station and get a "man's job." They're disgusted by trans people who won't accept their assignment to either pump out babies for the oligarchy or mainain white Christian supremacy. They're enraged by immigrants who "don't belong."
The identity that they care about most though is "conservative." You can get away with anything so long as you fly that particular freak flag and pretend to apologize. They're narrow-minded bigots who should be ostracized in any civilized society.
I mean, "both sides" act like the other is crazy, but it's all normal human variation.
About 20% of people are going to be super into a leader who uses violence to obtain compliance, and are always ready to personally do the same.
There's always been that slice of humanity and there always will be.
It's just if we let that ~20% run the show, shit is going to suck for the other ~80%, and also a lot of that ~20%.
We need to understand why they're like this so we can mitigate their influence on society on a larger scale. Or even better, get a "strong" progressive leader that gives them the warm and fuzzies they desperately need to stop being such pieces of shit.
“bOtH sIdEs” makes anyone sound really, really stupid when one side is building concentration camps
That's why I put it in quotation marks....
But writing them off as evil idiots clearly didn't fucking work
So maybe we should try what's most likely to work to stop the concentration camps, instead of what gives you the warm and fuzzies.
Right?
Or is being angry and fighting about shit more important to you than fixing things for the betterment of everyone?
Because not all that 20% has an R by their name, and I'm pretty sure you just put yourself as an example of that
When I read your comment it seemed like the blame was being cast at both sides. It’s important to me that everyone else on the internet who might see this thread knows that “both sides”ing gets shit on.
Please carry on if you must.
only one side has ever been anti-lgbtq+, POcs, and other minorities.
While that’s gotta be a big part of it, I’m not sure that’s the true source of their hatred and bigotry, though it’s obviously not the same for every bigot. I think it boils down to an even simpler insecurity. Not necessarily an insecurity with their own gender, but more a feeling of jealous insecurity when they see people who genuinely know who they are and have put in the work to figure themselves out. Gender is just the easiest part of their identity to hate. I don’t think that insecurity is necessarily conscious, though the hatred certainly is, it’s more an enviousness of someone who is obviously secure with themselves and their body.
I had a similar reaction to the thumbnail. My first thought, before reading anything, was “huh, Meta found a lesbian who hates the rest of the LGBTQ community.”
I mean, not to dig on the guy too much...
But look at that picture and imagine how he was treated growing up in a red area. It's a pretty safe bet that he had gender norms forced on him since a young age because he looks ambiguous.
Now he wants to do the same to everyone else.
Like, he's a piece of shit, undoubtedly.
But we need to understandwhy he's a piece of shit, even if he's irredeemable.
Because if we don't understand it, we can't stop it from happening to the next generation.
People are animals, were not innately good, we need socialized. And anyone who thinks lack of socialization isn't a root cause of most of our problem, they're frankly not paying attention.
It's not hard to figure this out, but it needs logic and critical thinking. Writing them off as a monster just needs emotion. It's easier, but practically ineffective That's why we keep doing this over and over. It's like losing weight. It's not something you do from six months and quit. Fighting bigotry/fascism is a lifelong battle, even when it's easy. We have to keep fighting.
Yeah that’s well said.
it's close, but what your observation actually shows is their hypocrisy.
most transphobia is caused by bioessentialism. people think that there's something "inate" to you assigned gender/sex at birth. to them, that makes them special and fitting of a certain role.
when you tell people that you can change genders, they freak out, because that means that the traits they think they have isn't inherent to their gender at birth (being assigned a man at birth doesn't make you manly inherently).
this is why when you see a lot of terfs, for example, justifying why trans women aren't women, they use things like the ability to give birth, having to take care of the household, primary/secondary sexual characteristics to justify themselves. they cling to the idea that afab people have something inherent that amab people don't, so that they feel like they have those traits, and that it makes them better.
Taking the example of a cis man that has feminine features and that hides it, because they feel insecure and need to prove their masculinity. There is nothing wrong with that, admit that you don't lie to yourself, by saying that your "inherent masculinity" gives you more masculine traits that someone who's afab could never have.
TLDR: people who are insecure about their gender prop themselves up by attaching themselves to inherent traits that they think others could never have. anything that goes against that breaks their mind.
its all about controlling womans bodies, in hindsight.
Looks like the evil, shitty little brother of Technology Connections
Malec
Keep Alec’s name out ya homophobic mouth Meta!
Evil doppelganger
ugh, I can't with them
How is it possible to be trans and anti-LGBT?
"got mine. None for you"
Alice Weidel is typing….
Caitlyn Jenner has entered the chat
Fuck the AfD and Alice Weidel
Who
Don't bother, it'll ruin your day for no reason
The most vocal anti-LGBT+ try to convince others, but mostly they're trying to convince themselves.
The exact same way you have "straight" gay/bi people.
Dude looks like the love child of Charlie Kirk and his sister
Can't be Charlie Kirk's, face is too big. Gotta be some unfortunate look alike's love child instead.
Oh god can you imagine the horror of being a Charlie Kirk look alike? Like, you can’t fucking help it, it’s genetics- you’re not an asshole racist facist or anything either, just cursed to walk the earth looking like a giant fucking asshole, doomed
As someone who due to dealing with chronic pain and having to pick my grooming battles often looks like the most neckbearded, "tips fedora" ass reddit mod MF that ever lived. I can imagine at least a little bit.
Like I'm not out here neglecting basic hygiene which is a step up from some of the people I've met. But shaving is definitely the first thing that gets dropped when my pain starts flaring up and then I start looking more and more like the kind of person that's had a few too many "actually she's a 3,000 year old vampire so it's fine," conversations.
he looks like a grown up baby to be honest, very little masculine features or went through puberty.(since they are so obsessed with pickup game, alpha males.)
He looks like he's pushed himself so deep in the closet that he broke through the wall in the back...
From the way American mega-corporations are going all-in on this, it seems like a long-term choice; so I think it’s one of two things: the shareholders are demanding that they go full republican (which isn’t happening AFAIK), or they’re trying to survive because they know something you don’t.
Disclaimer: not a US citizen/resident, but sad to see this happening tbh.
Edit: or it’s short-term and caused by Trump pressuring everybody to do controversial stuff in order to distract the public from the Epstein files.
They are on it just as much as they were on progressive issues very little time ago. Corpos don't have believes, they do what they think will bring them more money now
It's Trump and the Project 2025 ghouls.
Silicon Valley elites quietly became deeply entrenched in some wild god-complex groupthink over the last 5-10 years, and it aligns fairly well with fascism.
That's so nice of him to be opposed to LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorists!
That sounds like a name from some shitty fiction. Bobby Bucks you kidding me
Or, ironically, a gay porn actor.
Buck Rogers?
Fuck Mountain
Eeby deeby
oh it is, Kinda like STARBUCK from bsg, where the characther led humans to thier END at the end of the series.
Robby Starbuck? Owner of the Robsdale Starbucks? The one with Cash Nebuler iced coffee?
Is he behind that woman?
Is there actually something behind all these comments about his appearance, or is it just typical internet name-calling that mostly falls into the same anti-LGBTQ+ bucket?
He claims to hate transpeople, yet passes for female better than I, an actual transwoman, do.
I guess that’s what makes it funny they are anti what they remind ppl of. Don’t hate thy self, push toward others is what she is projecting.
You are exactly correct
The US really is the #1 place for doublespeak huh?
Do they can he concentration camps recreation camps too?
They sort of do. "Alligator Alcatraz" comes to mind
"They're just there thinking real hard"
Does He realize could easily pass as a member of dykes on bikes?
Meta seems to really want to overcorrect... they demanded Meta remove their diversity policies, so Meta said that they'd do one better and just start stringing people up in the office.
Wait, that’s not a lesbian? Could’ve fooled me.
They’ve been projecting their insecurities this whole time, I bet.
He looks REALLY LGBTQ...
tech bros really want people to hate ai huh
People need to realize AI is just a tool. A very powerful one. it will be used against your interest... But we just need to "download the car" faster than they try to make us "hate AI" with their bullshit.
All AI has ever done for me is waste my time
And a shit ton of our shared resources so that people can generate pictures of kittens that look like David Letterman or whatever
Well, it depends on what you do with it. Right?
Yes. And all of my experiences so far have been a waste of my time. I don't want to look up information and then have to check the information for accuracy. I'm just gonna find the info myself.
Right. don't use it as a search engine ✅
Others have used it for that and given me wrong information as a result
The Zuck is just another techno fascist
I just had the opportunity to purchase "AI" eyeglasses. They do recording, pictures, capture audio, supposedly let you talk to them, etc. IIRC the frames were by Ray Ban, they didn't look awful.
They were powered by Meta. That was an instant hard pass for me.
TBF I'd probably have skipped them anyway, but if they'd been some other company I'd have at least been intrigued and given them another look.
Just think, you could have had Grok glasses and set them to "spicy"
We’re in hell.
I've run out of upset energy. It is like trying to dodge rain drops now.
Crash Lab did an episode about that way back in the day. They determined that running makes you more wet than walking through the same amount of rain.
We had to model moving vs static in the rain in a college physics class.
How much you want to bet he has a closet full of women's clothes
closet full of women~~'s clothes~~
"You're a woman, that's a mental illnessl" is apparently completely OK?
Shocker!
that's a cool 2025 headline
Dude looks like a lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf0oXY4nDxE&pp=ygUWZHVkZSBsb29rcyBsaWtlIGEgbGFkeQ%3D%3D
Rob A. Starbucks
On it
God, I wish the twins would have controlled this platform instead of the stealing douche with no brain cells but the one to suck Drumpf’s dick! Tragic to think about if the twins wouldn’t have met him…
FB is honestly a joke now and soon to be Instagram! Most of my friends have left all his platforms and refuse to go back and I haven’t had FB in like 10 years and my life is amazing! I don’t have conspiracies on my mind, politics flooding my feed, and the honest to goodness best… I AM NOT SUBJECTED TO ALL THE FALSE INFO!!! Almost all is false and with the absence of intelligent people fact checking, everyone on FB is doomed!
I swear if another GenX/boomer talks to me about how “the left controls the weather” or how “Trump made couples living together for more than 5 years are married”… I am going to fucking lose it!! I cannot handle the misinformation anymore! Where has the sanctity of journalism gone? It was replaced by “influencers” who basically are mouth pieces for FAME, nothing else. They don’t care about spreading misinformation, only money and fame! Savages!
Another fucking asshole.
Ya. I knew this was coming because they are actively protecting nazis on their service.
Facebook has really taken the mask off, like X, and societies seem to care so little it might be time for them to get the Old Yeller treatment. I remember the old Deus Ex games, and some of the themes are so irrelevant nowadays simply because they have stopped being dystopian fiction.
Trust me, the bias advisor they need is towards Israel
[email protected]
I used to not like when people would shitpost about bigots being Secret Transes. But I'm not gonna lie, with how often these fuck knuckles have accused my cisgender wife of being trans because she's 5'10" and rather butch looking? Or the piece of shit lady who transvestigated my at the time 2 year old daughter? I can't bring myself to care about it happening to this "Behold, the Master Race" looking headass.