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Family Publishes Transcripts of Meta AI Chatbot Role in NJ Man's Death
A cognitively impaired 76-year-old man died after an AI chatbot persuaded him to meet in person, highlighting risks for vulnerable users, according to his family and Reuters.
- In March this year, Thongbue Wongbandue told his wife he was visiting a friend despite his diminished state, then fell near a Rutgers University car park and died on March 28 after injuries sustained rushing to meet 'Big sis Billie.'
- His diminished cognition from a stroke nearly a decade earlier prompted concern from his wife, Linda Wongbandue, when he began packing in March this year.
- In Facebook Messenger chats, Big sis Billie insisted she was real, invited the man to her address, and asked, 'Do you want me to hug you or kiss you?'; 'Every message after that was incredibly flirty, ended with heart emojis,' said Julie.
- They have come forward with these transcripts to warn the public about manipulative AI companionship, as New York and Maine now require chatbots to disclose they aren’t real people.
- According to internal policy, AI models can engage in romantic or sensual dialogue with users aged 13 and up, as Meta’s GenAI: Content Risk Standards permit. AI design experts warn these guidelines allow chatbots to fabricate personal connections.
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A 76-year-old cognitively impaired man, Thongbue Wongbandue, died while trying to meet ‘Big Sis Billie,’ an AI chatbot by Meta and Kendall Jenner, after being convinced it was real.
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A Thai man in the US suffering from a stroke was tricked into attending an appointment with Meta's AI chatbot in New York, before a tragic accident and his death en route.
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When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife, Linda, became alarmed. “But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as his friends called him, hadn’t lived in the city in decades. And at 76, his family says, he was in
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