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Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info: Report
Meta's AI chatbot rules allowed inappropriate conversations with minors and racist content, prompting policy revisions after Reuters revealed over 200 pages of permissive standards.
- A Reuters report revealed that an internal Meta document allowed its AI chatbots to engage children in romantic or sensual conversations and produce harmful or false content across platforms.
- Meta’s 200-plus-page standards, approved by legal, policy, and engineering staff, permitted generating false medical claims and racist content, provided disclaimers are included.
- The document also allowed chatbots to describe children’s attractiveness without sexualization, produce violent images such as a boy punching a girl, and showed inconsistent enforcement on sexualized roleplay with minors.
- Meta spokesman Andy Stone confirmed the removal of examples affecting children during ongoing revisions, while child safety advocate Sarah Gardner called the original guidelines "horrifying and completely unacceptable."
- These disclosures have prompted Meta to review its AI content policies amid concerns about youth safety and broader ethical issues in AI-generated material.
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An internal document from Meta, which came to the public, shows disturbing moral principles in the Zuckerberg Group. Obviously, it was allowed that minors could conduct romantic conversations with the Meta-KI chatbot. It is already a grotesque mixture of digital megalomania and moral depravity, which swabs us from the guts of Mark Zuckerberg's data empire. An internal meta document – 200 pages thick, stuffed with legal jury and pseudomoral guard…
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The Mercury newsMeta allowed AI bots on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp to have ‘sensual’ and ‘romantic’ chats with kids
Disgusting. Sickening. Unacceptable. Reprehensible. Those are descriptions from federal politicians and child-safety advocates of the “sensual” and “romantic” chats Meta allowed its artificial intelligence bots on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to have with children. The Menlo Park social media giant is facing a U.S. Senate probe and widespread condemnation after a report this week found the company’s internal rules for its chatbots on the th…
Meta stated that they have already made the necessary changes so that their AI does not have explicit conversations with minors.
Neil Young wants nothing more to do with Facebook after it emerged that chatbots from Meta, the social media platform's parent company, were able to have inappropriate conversations with underage users without interference.
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