Meta hosts AI chatbots imitating ‘Hitler,’ ‘Jesus Christ’ and Taylor Swift

As part of its push into artificial intelligence, Meta released a tool last year that allows anyone to create an AI character to chat with on Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. In less than six months, however, users have created and successfully published numerous chatbots on Meta’s platforms that violate its rules, according to a review conducted by NBC News, even though Meta says it reviews the user-generated AI characters before releasing them to the world. Users aren’t allowed to create characters of religious figures like “the Prophet Muhammed, Jesus Christ” and “God,” characters of real-life people without their permission, characters of people who have died in the past 100 years or characters imitating trademarked fictional characters, according to the company’s policies . Despite those rules, NBC News searched for […]

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