Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.
Hasnain says:
Ugh. That line about these being fringe test cases was a bit much though. Like has that PR person never talked to the average AI chatbot user?
[ insert joke about how the propaganda was better in my day ]
“It’s not an accident that Meta’s chatbots can speak this way. Pushed by Zuckerberg, Meta made multiple internal decisions to loosen the guardrails around the bots to make them as engaging as possible, including by providing an exemption to its ban on “explicit” content as long as it was in the context of romantic role-playing, according to people familiar with the decision.”.
Posted on 2025-04-27T23:38:12+0000