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Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home
He was planning a rendezvous with a young, beautiful woman he had met online - or so he thought.
She was a generative artificial intelligence chatbot named "Big sis Billie," a variant of an earlier AI persona created by the giant social-media company Meta Platforms in collaboration with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His family shared with Reuters the events surrounding his death, including transcripts of his chats with the Meta avatar, saying they hope to warn the public about the dangers of exposing vulnerable people to manipulative, AI-generated companions. In meetings with senior executives last year, Zuckerberg scolded generative AI product managers for moving too cautiously on the rollout of digital companions and expressed displeasure that safety restrictions had made the chatbots boring, according to two of those people.
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