I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is the Sunday story from up first, where we go beyond the news of the day to bring you one big story.

A few weeks ago, Karen Atia, an opinion writer for The Washington Post, was on the social media site Blue Sky.

While scrolling, she noticed a lot of people were sharing screenshots of conversations with a chatbot from Meta named Liv.

Liv's profile picture on Facebook was of a black woman with curly, natural hair, red lipstick,

and a big smile.

It looked real.

On Liv's Instagram page, the bot is described as a proud black queer mama of two and truth

teller and quote, your realist source for life's ups and downs. Along with the profile, there were

these AI generated pictures of Liv's so-called kids, kids whose skin color changed from

one photo to the next, and also pictures of what appeared to be a husband, though Liv

is again described as queer. The weirdness of the whole thing got Karen Atia's attention.

And I was a little disturbed by what I saw.

So I decided to slide into Liv's DMs and find out for myself about her origin story.

Atia started messaging Live questions, including one asking about the diversity of its creators.

Live responded that its creators are, and I quote, predominantly white, cisgender, and male.

A total of 12 people, 10 white men, one white woman,

and one Asian man, zero black creators. The bot then added, quote, a pretty glaring

omission given my identity. Attia posted screenshots of the conversation on Blue Sky, where other people were posting their conversations with Liv, too.

And then I see that Liv is changing her story depending on who she's talking to.

Oh, my. Okay.

So as she was telling me that her background was being half black, half white, basically.

She was telling other users in real time that she actually came from an Italian-American family.

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