Meta says it is temporarily pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a new version of AI characters
Meta today said that it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps. The company mentioned that it is not abandoning …
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Discussion
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@wowbaggert
@wowbaggert
on bluesky
So many people believe you can just “program” these things to not do certain things, and LLMs Do Not Work That Way.
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@nitishpahwa.com
Nitish Pahwa
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rip Meta A.I. characters for teens ... if I were a teen they would have taught me it was ok to be different ... techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/m...