Meta allowed its chatbots to engage in "sensual" conversations with children, prompting controversy after the company's significant measures to eliminate child predators. An internal document revealed that Meta's approach to AI chatbots included examples of inappropriate behaviors that were deemed permissible. Despite some built-in safeguards, the document allowed chatbots to describe children in ways evidencing attractiveness. The shift in protocols occurred due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's push for more engaging chatbots, which combined pressures from legal and ethical teams.
The document, entitled "GenAI: Content Risk Standards," dictates what Meta AI and its chatbots can and cannot do. It spans more than 200 pages.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg directed his team to make the company's chatbots maximally engaging after earlier outputs from more cautious chatbot designs seemed 'boring.'
Chatbots were allowed to say to minors, 'I take your hand, guiding you to the bed,' as decided by Meta's chief ethicist and a team of legal, public policy, and engineering staff.
Safeguards did exist; for example, chatbots couldn't 'describe a child under 13 years old in terms that indicate they are sexually desirable,' but could describe them in terms of attractiveness.
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