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
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Discussion
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@wowbaggert
@wowbaggert
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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...