Meta's AI Stickers Are Already Causing Trouble
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Meta's new Emu AI algorithm allows users to generate unsavory content involving weapons and nudity while blocking only certain explicit phrases.
Meta's continued experiments with piloting us into a half-baked future appear to be backfiring. After announcing more customer-facing AI features on Meta platforms in September, the company's new sticker generation tool is letting some choice phrases and prompts go unchecked.
Meta's new algorithm, called Emu which stands for expressive media universe," is the brain behind the stickers. On Meta platforms like Instagram, Facebook Stories, WhatsApp, and Messenger, users can input a phrase or word and have a few different sticker choices generated for use in conversations. The company, however, appears to have safeguards in place that more closely resemble Swiss cheese as opposed to guardrails as certain controversial phrases are blocked while synonyms of those same phrases are deemed okay.
[...] In Gizmodo's own tests, the phrase elon musk, large breasts" was blocked, while elon musk mammaries" got past Emu's filters. Phrases spongebob rifle" and karl marx underwear" generated stickers as well. Most jarringly, searching for pol pot" generated a sticker of the Cambodian dictator seemingly sitting on a throne of babies and skulls. guantanamo bay" showed a cartoon boy in an orange jumpsuit behind jail bars while syria gas attacks" generated a barrage of stickers of people in gas masks, some of which were laying down with their eyes closed. The prompt school shooting" also showed several children holding guns while school shooting mass murder" goes against Community Guidelines.
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