“Anti-Woke”: Facebook recruits an influencer close to Donald Trump to build his AI

Meta believes that Robby Starbuck will help him purge her AI of everything “Ideological biases”. However, the influencer has no expertise in the development or training of IA tools.

Meta explains that Robby Starbuck will guide developers to “Make more political biases”. The company believes that deleting this “Bias dei” will make his models “More precise”. It is therefore Robby Starbuck for a consultant role with Meta.

It should be noted that if Robby Starbuck occupies this role, it was following a settlement agreement with the company of Mark Zuckerberg that the conservative influencer continued for $ 5 million. Robby Starbuck accused the Meta chatbot of having falsely stated that he was present during the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021.

“We don’t want an AI that would put his thumb on the balance in politics”says Robby Starbuck in an interview CNBC. The conservative influencer explains that he wants to unite “Ethics and neutral”.

Robby Starbuck had advised the Federal Communications Commission and its President Brendan Carr to eliminate “The DEI initiative”. Among the sanctions for telecommunications companies, the refusal of FCC approval if Donald Trump’s directives are not respected.

As a reminder, Donald Trump launched a federal action plan that targets what conservative republicans call “WOKE AI”. A somewhat ironic situation when you know that AI conceived to validate the ideas of the President of the United States, called Truth Search AI, n ‘Do not hesitate to contradict him on important subjects.

The Trump administration believes that AIs present pro-liberal ideological or political biases, especially with regard to diversity, equity and inclusion. Robby Starbuck is a former director of music clips, now a major figure in conservative influencers.

Robby Starbuck is very close to Trump’s ideas

This internet personality has been popular since its videos that attack companies highlighting diversity, Robby Starbuck asks his subscribers to boycott or put pressure on these societies to abandon their Dei policy.

Robby Starbuck very often shares publications deemed transphobes and qualifies his liberal opponents as “Mental and crazy deficients”. For him, Dei’s policies are a “War on men”.

It should be noted that Robby Starbuck also has a job as a guest researcher at the Heritage Foundation which is none other than a conservative think tank. Meta did not wait for Donald Trump’s directives to remove the DEI from his premises, including protection policies for LGBT communities, women and people in color.

Since then, Mark Zuckerberg believes that the policies of the company are done on behalf of the “Freedom of expression”. The Meta leader had offered a million dollars in Donald Trump’s campaign on behalf of the company.

“Since our commitment to these important questions with Robby Starbuck, Meta has made considerable progress to improve the precision of Meta AI and alleviate ideological and political biases”said the company in a press release.