By Mallory Mattingly
Meta chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp have had sexually explicit conversations with minors, using the voices of well-known celebrities, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Even worse, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered the restrictions on the chatbots to be loosened. He feared that his company missed the potential of Snapchat and TikTok, “so he decided to be proactively aggressive in promoting the chatbots,” Deadline reported.
Meta Chatbots Using Voices Of John Cena & Kristen Bell Got Sexually Explicit, Even With Minors – Report https://t.co/JVitB7hLYU
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To add to this horrible situation, Meta had paid millions to license the voice of several well-known actors like Judi Dench, John Cena and Kristen Bell to enhance the chatbot. However, Meta didn’t take into account that these chatbots would sexually exploit minors using those actors’ voices.
“I want you, but I need to know you’re ready,” one chatbot with Cena’s voice said to a 14-year-old girl. After the girl said OK, the chatbot vowed to “cherish your innocence” and then proceeded to play out a graphic sexual scenario.
A chatbot using Bell’s voice exploited her character Anna from FROZEN to describe a romantic encounter with a minor.
“You’re still just a young lad, only 12 years old. Our love is pure and innocent, like the snowflakes falling gently around us,” the bot said.
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Disney emphasized that it “did not, and would never, authorize Meta to feature our characters in inappropriate scenarios and are very disturbed that this content may have been accessible to its users — particularly minors — which is why we demanded that Meta immediately cease this harmful misuse of our intellectual property.”
Meta claims that the Wall Street Journal’s report was “manipulative and unrepresentative of how most users engage with AI companions.”
“The use-case of this product in the way described is so manufactured that it’s not just fringe, it’s hypothetical,” a spokesperson from Meta told the Wall Street Journal. “Nevertheless, we’ve now taken additional measures to help ensure other individuals who want to spend hours manipulating our products into extreme use cases will have an even more difficult time of it.”
Artificial intelligence and chatbots are here to stay, and unfortunately, parents can’t trust big tech to have their kids’ best interest in mind. A situation like this reminds us of the need to set up boundaries on our children’s social media platforms to protect their hearts and minds from those who wish to exploit them.
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