Kill ‘Em All Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated “characters” after getting slammed for how cringe and problematic they were. As 404 Media reports, Meta has now killed off most of its remaining AI user accounts — most of which were launched in 2023 and kiboshed by summer 2024 — in the wake of a backlash against one of its executives suggesting they may be the future of the company’s social networks. At the end of 2024, Connor Hayes, Meta’s VP of product for generative AI, told the Financial Times that these AI-generated accounts would “have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI.” Immediately following that end-of-year admission, folks online unsurprisingly began clowning the notion of Facebook and Instagram-sponsored bot accounts. “Translation: ‘Our real users are quitting the platform, so we will fill our community with fake users instead,'” one Reddit user wrote. “This is some deeply evil shit,” a Bluesky user opined. Liz Lemon While criticism reached a fever pitch, users started tracking the fake profiles down — and what they found was somehow even worse, and stranger, than you’d imagine. As Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah posted on Bluesky, one of the since-killed profiles was described as a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller.” Named “Liz,” the account existed primarily as a chatbot, and when Attiah asked it about the people who created it, she was met with a pretty jarring answer. “My creators’ team is predominantly white, cisgender, and…Meta Panics, Kills AI-Generated “People” It Created Like “’Proud Black Queer Momma” After Near-Universal Backlash