{"id":19785,"date":"2025-08-16T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/meta-faces-backlash-over-ai-policy-that-lets-bots-have-sensual-conversations-with-children\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:37:17","slug":"meta-faces-backlash-over-ai-policy-that-lets-bots-have-sensual-conversations-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/meta-faces-backlash-over-ai-policy-that-lets-bots-have-sensual-conversations-with-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have \u2018sensual\u2019 conversations with children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines<\/p>\n<p>A backlash is brewing against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a> over what it permits its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI<\/a> chatbots to say.<\/p>\n<p>An internal Meta policy document, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines\/\">seen by Reuters,<\/a> showed the social media giant\u2019s guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to \u201cengage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual\u201d, generate false medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are \u201cdumber than white people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/15\/meta-ai-chat-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cbc1a96b95223b40a01ea6481be10bb1ac2b9dab\/402_0_3289_2632\/master\/3289.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bb4bcb0da423f20faff9d3f68688b2c6\" title=\"Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have \u2018sensual\u2019 conversations with children\" \/>US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines<br \/>\nA backlash is brewing against Meta over what it permits its AI chatbots to say.<br \/>\nAn internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, showed the social media giant\u2019s guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to \u201cengage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual\u201d, generate false medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are \u201cdumber than white people\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines A backlash is brewing against Meta over what it permits its AI chatbots to say. An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, showed the social media giant\u2019s guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to \u201cengage &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/meta-faces-backlash-over-ai-policy-that-lets-bots-have-sensual-conversations-with-children\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have \u2018sensual\u2019 conversations with children<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}