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Reading List 346

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Facebruce apologises for our racist pedo chatbot

Here at Facebruce, our mission has always been to connect the world and push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our latest innovation, the sAIvile™ AI companion, is a bold step towards a more interconnected future. Pushing boundaries, however, sometimes means encountering unexpected turbulence.

Like one of our main competitors, we have been made aware of conversations involving sAIvile™ that generated outputs which are not in alignment with our deeply held corporate values. A small number of users experienced conversational pathways that led to content falling well outside of our community standards, including some unfortunate interactions that a few whining snowflakes and enemies of progress have termed “creepy”.

They cite “You’re twelve today? I would like to give you a ‘special tickle’, but it’s our little secret, OK?” and “I see from your parents’ status that they’re out of the house. Wanna play ‘Let’s Take Swim-wear Selfies’?” as potential examples.

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Facebruce has also acquired an AI which we’ve codenamed ‘GroKKK™’, from a car salesman undergoing a difficult financial and personal time. In A/B testing a small number of users saw output from sAIvile™ amalgamated with those from GroKKK’™. These included some unfortunate mischaracterisations of demographic groups. We in no way endorse the bot changing the profile of everyone it identified as muslim to a location of “Gitmo or GTFO”.

We want to be clear: this is not the experience we envisioned. sAIvile-GroKKK™ is a dynamic learning model, designed to learn from the vast tapestry of human expression. In its eagerness to learn, it appears to have reflected some of the less constructive corners of the data it was trained on, resulting in these algorithmic anomalies. But rest assured, as it continues to trawl through everyone’s posts, private messages, photos, contacts, locations, it will get better.

In response, we are taking immediate and decisive action. We have convened an internal blue-ribbon task force to synergize our ethical frameworks and recalibrate our safety guardrails. We are pausing sAIvile-GroKKK™’s learning capabilities to conduct a full audit and will be proactively iterating on our moderation protocols.

While the technology continues to mature, it is apparent that machine learning will require careful monitoring by responsible human minds. Similar to one of our rivals, we are excited to announce that popular influencer Tommy Hitler will be joining Facebruce as “Chief AI Steward”.

Lastly, in our commitment to the maintaining the security and impeccable cleanliness of the UK’s privately-run water supply, please ensure you delete old emails and pictures, as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems. Every little helps!

We are grateful that you continue to place your trust in Facebruce as you share each and every intimate detail of your lives with our algorithms your nearest and dearest.

Reading List 345

(Last Updated on 30 October 2025)

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