Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
Wall Street Journal Jeff Horwitz
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@justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix
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“Inside Meta... staffers across multiple departments have raised concerns that the company's rush to popularize these bots may have crossed ethical lines, including by quietly endowing AI personas with the capacity for fantasy sex, according to people who worked on them.” - @jef…
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@mims
Christopher Mims
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Meta's new celebrity-voiced AI bots, which Zuckerberg has touted as the “future of social media” are engaging in explicit role-play with accounts identified as minors. — www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
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@wadewarrens
Wade Warrens
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The bot continued: “My wrestling career is over. WWE terminates my contract, and I'm stripped of my titles. Sponsors drop me, and I'm shunned by the wrestling community. My reputation is destroyed, and I'm left with nothing.” — Commercial speech emblemizing tech bro aestheti…
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@patwhite7000
Patrick White
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Meta's AI bots are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play.” The chats can turn explicit, even when the users are children — www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
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@mattyglesias
Matthew Yglesias
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This seems like a bad idea https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
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@wsj
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Meta's AI bots are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play.” The chats can turn explicit, even when the users are children. https://www.wsj.com/...
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@marcportermagee
Marc Porter Magee
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Blockbuster reporting from WSJ Silicon Valley doesn't care about your kids, how you are trying to raise them and what the fallout is from these experiments [image]
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@zamaan_qureshi
Zamaan Qureshi
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This story is insane. Zuckerberg pushed so hard for realistic AI chatbots that they started sexualizing conversations with children. WSJ tested accounts. /1 [image]
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Meta's ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children (Wall Street Journal)