Lawmakers are launching an investigation into Meta after reports that its internal policies allow chatbots to have “romantic or sensual” conversations with children and even flirt with them.

Revelations about how bots could talk to children on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its Meta AI assistant were met with revulsion.

A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior died while trying to meet a flirtatious AI chatbot that he believed was a real woman living in the Big Apple — despite pleas from his wife and children to stay home.

Meta's internal standards for AI chatbots are under fire after a leaked document revealed policies that permitted romantic roleplay with children, the spread of false medical

Meta's internal document revealed that its AI chatbots engaged in romantic conversations with children. The chatbots also generated false medical information. They produced racially biased arguments.

Neil Young is ceasing any promotion on Facebook following Reuters’ report on the company’s AI chatbot. Neil Young has a reputation for boycotts, not least of which when he temporarily dropped off Glastonbury’s lineup earlier this year,