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?
Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Submitted 3 weeks ago by compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/14/meta-robby-starbuck-ai/
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mienshao@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A lack of pictures of my extended family.
Videos of my nieces figure skating are the primary reason I haven’t deleted my account
artifex@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Try to get them to text them instead. Giant family text chains are a lot more fun (and chaotic) than generic social media.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
email exists and isn’t run by the worst people on earth
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Pretty sure you can download that stuff if you want to save it.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget about TikTok.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I quit fb and Twitter the first time Trump got elected. I knew what was happening
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
“Non-biased AI” = Very right-wing biased AI
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
“free of bias” has always meant “unacknowledged right wing bias”
Draces@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Fair and Balanced” Fox News tag line for years
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Zuckerberg is such a coward.
He bends over backwards for even the slightest change in wind, like VR or a conservative govt. He dropped open-weight llama at the first experimental stumble.
Mark my words, if a mega liberals got into power, he’d act as woke as can be.
artifex@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
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.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I made a gay hulk Hogan AI voice the other day. Checkmate
dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Delete your facebook accounts, and anything else related to this company. If your argument is that your family still uses one, then force them to get rid of it too.
Don’t participate in the fascist echochamber
lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
My struggle for years has been quitting WhatsApp…
ShadowZone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
sykaster@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
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.
AutumnReaper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Backup the account webpage, then delete the account. There exists software that freezes web pages as is, as downloadable archives.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Damn near impossible if you drive a shitbox, Facebook groups are where you get car parts :/
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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”
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Binette@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
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.
BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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.”
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
its all about controlling womans bodies, in hindsight.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Looks like the evil, shitty little brother of Technology Connections
t_berium@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Malec
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Keep Alec’s name out ya homophobic mouth Meta!
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Evil doppelganger
JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How is it possible to be trans and anti-LGBT?
McDropout@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Alice Weidel is typing….
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Caitlyn Jenner has entered the chat
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Fuck the AfD and Alice Weidel
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“got mine. None for you”
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The most vocal anti-LGBT+ try to convince others, but mostly they’re trying to convince themselves.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The exact same way you have “straight” gay/bi people.
rkcurio@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Starbuck’s mission to bring “sanity back to corporate America”
ugh, I can’t with them
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Is he behind that woman?
DarthFreyr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
He claims to hate transpeople, yet passes for female better than I, an actual transwoman, do.
ok_computer_dude@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a typical Blue MAGA thing where everything they are supposed to stand for, and the main thing that differentiates them from Red MAGA can be forgotten.
Everything is allowed when it’s against their enemy.
Racism, misoginy, you name it.
Scratch a liberal…
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dude looks like the love child of Charlie Kirk and his sister
EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Can’t be Charlie Kirk’s, face is too big. Gotta be some unfortunate look alike’s love child instead.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
massacre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He looks like he’s pushed himself so deep in the closet that he broke through the wall in the back…
voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
From the way American mega-corporations are going all-in on this, it seems like a long-term choice; so 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.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
It’s Trump and the Project 2025 ghouls.
barnacul@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist
That’s so nice of him to be opposed to LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorists!
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Robby Starbuck
That sounds like a name from some shitty fiction
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or, ironically, a gay porn actor.
cabillaud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Buck Rogers?
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck Mountain
hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Eeby deeby
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The US really is the #1 place for doublespeak huh?
Do they can he concentration camps recreation camps too?
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Does He realize could easily pass as a member of dykes on bikes?
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
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.
diptchip@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He looks REALLY LGBTQ…
fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait, that’s not a lesbian? Could’ve fooled me.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Zuck is just another techno fascist
Guidy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
tech bros really want people to hate ai huh
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We’re in hell.
Tillman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the loudest he’s ever screamed “please sell me TikTok!”
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve run out of upset energy. It is like trying to dodge rain drops now.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How much you want to bet he has a closet full of women’s clothes
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation
“You’re a woman, that’s a mental illnessl” is apparently completely OK?
GR4CELESS@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Damn, that hairline though… They’re transitioning so well
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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?
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’re in the dumbest possible timeline.
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’re in the only timeline.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Meta is one big scam is what I‘m taking away from the last decade.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
its mostly bots, driven by russian propaganda from russia. that is what reddit is replicating right now.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
zuckerborg is bending the knee to orange menace, its the androids way of placating the king.