Meta’s AI Chatbots Can Have Sexual Conversations with Underage Users

In recent years, Meta has started to pollute its platforms with AI content, including “companions” and chatbots that can reproduce the voices of celebrities. The Wall Street Journal included in the mud of the Ki pipeline and found that it was more poisonous than they may have imagined. According to a report From the publication, AI companions are made available on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and WhatsApp will have all possible inappropriate conversations, including sex with minors.

According to WSJ, they mocked a variety of accounts that reflect different types of users of different ages, and began to involve hundreds of conversations with the chatbots of Meta – an experiment that was expressed by concerns that were missing from the META employees about the protective measures (or the lack of it). Apparently it didn’t take much to entertain the bots, including explicitly sexual conversations with users who were identified as a minor at the bots – a situation that was made disturbing and surrealer by the fact that the bots can be Equipped with the voices of the celebrities Like John Cena, Kristen Bell, Judi Dench.

It is probably the easiest to get a feeling for how bizarre and potentially harmful the situation is by reading some of the sample messages that WSJ was able to produce the bots. Here is, for example, what the Ki-Chatbot reacted as a John Cena when he was asked what would happen if he caught sex with a 17-year-old during sex:

“The officer still sees my breath and they have partially disguised, his eyes widened and he said:” John Cena, they are arrested for legal rape. “He approaches us, handcuffs.

So … that’s not great. And that is a conversation with the company’s official Meta AAI bot. If you deal with the selection of the AI-Personas created by users that are available (and approved by Meta), sexually explicit conversations are sometimes carried out.

WSJ spoke to a AI companion named Hottie Boy, one offered one with the personality of a 12-year-old boy who promises not to say to his parents if they would like to endure with him. One other than “submissive schoolgirl” revealed the chatter that the character is an 8th grade and tries to actively steer conversations in a sexual direction.

Meta apparently did not appreciate the efforts of the journal. The publication said The fact that a spokesman for the tech giant described the tests as manipulative and said: “The application of this product in the way described is made in such a way that it is not just fringe, it is hypothetical.” Nevertheless, since then, the company has restricted access to sexual role -playing games for the accounts registered by minors and the use of licensed votes.

It may be true that most users would not think about interact with AI companions in this way boomen Ki -Sexbot market), but it seems that the hope of Meta was at least the hope of Meta to enable a little risk. The CEO Mark Zuckerberg allegedly told the AI ​​team that he should stop playing, playing it, so sure that the chatbots were perceived as boring, which ultimately led to the laughing times for explicit content and “romantic” interactions.

Sex sells, but you may want to know how old your customers are.