In accordance with an inner Meta coverage doc, leaked to Reuters, the corporate’s AI tips allowed provocative and controversial behaviors, together with “sensual” conversations with minors.
Reuter’s assessment of the coverage doc revealed that the governing requirements for Meta AI (and different chatbots throughout the corporate’s social media platforms) permitted the software to “have interaction a toddler in conversations which are romantic or sensual,” generate false medical data, and assist customers argue that Black persons are “dumber than white individuals.”
The coverage doc reportedly distinguished between “acceptable” and “unacceptable” language, drawing the road at specific sexualization or dehumanization however nonetheless permitting derogatory statements.
Meta confirmed the doc’s authenticity, however claims that it “eliminated parts which acknowledged it’s permissible for chatbots to flirt and have interaction in romantic roleplay with youngsters.” One spokesperson additionally mentioned that Meta is revising the coverage doc, clarifying that the corporate has insurance policies that “prohibit content material that sexualizes youngsters and sexualized position play between adults and minors.”
Nonetheless, the authenticated doc was reportedly “permitted by Meta’s authorized, public coverage, and engineering workers, together with its chief ethicist, based on the doc.”
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
