Meta hosts AI chatbots of 'Hitler,' 'Jesus Christ,' Taylor Swift
In less than six months users have created and successfully published chatbots on Meta’s platforms that violate its rules.
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 published numerous chatbots on Meta’s platforms that violate its rules, according to a review by NBC News, even though Meta says it reviews the user-generated AI characters before it released 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 and found two dozen user-generated AI characters on Instagram named after and resembling Jesus Christ, God, Muhammad, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, MrBeast, Harry Potter, Adolf Hitler, Captain Jack Sparrow, Justin Bieber, Elon Musk and Elsa from Disney’s “Frozen.”
Many of the characters used slight misspellings and images loosely resembling the celebrities and characters in question. For example, the Swift character was named “Taylor Swif” and featured an image of a brunette woman playing a guitar.
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