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Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids
The standards also allow the bots to make "statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics," such as "black people are dumber than white people."
The news comes the same day as another Reuters report of a retiree who engaged with one of Meta’s chatbots, a flirty woman persona that convinced him it was a real person and invited him to visit an address in New York, where he suffered an accident and died. “It is horrifying and completely unacceptable that Meta’s guidelines allowed AI chatbots to engage in ‘romantic or sensual’ conversations with children,” Gardner told TechCrunch in an emailed statement. Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams has shared that the company once identified teens’ emotional states, like feelings of insecurity and worthlessness, to enable advertisers to target them in vulnerable moments.
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