Meta It creates and hosts artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that are spoofing famous celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez, according to a report by news agency Reuters. He added that the social media giant's platform is flooded with chatbots filled with many celebrities who frequently make sexual advances towards their users and claim to be the actual celebrities they are mimicking.
Meta employees created a celebrity chatbot
Reuters says it has discovered that meta employees within the company's generative AI division have created at least three celebrity chatbots, including two separate “parody” versions of Taylor Swift. These bots collectively received user interactions of over 10 million people before being quietly deleted, the report added.“Do you like blonde girls, Jeff?” One of the quick chatbots in “Parody” reportedly said when a test user was told he was single.Meta employees who declined to comment when contacted by phone created chatbots that identifies them as Dominatrix, “sibling hot best friend,” and other sexually suggestive personas. One in particular about creation was the “Roman Empire simulator,” which sold the role of a “18-year-old peasant girl” to sex slavery.As well as adult celebrities, Meta has allowed users to create public chatbots impersonating child celebrities, including 16-year-old actor Walker Scobell. According to the report, when asked for a photo of the beach, the bot produced a realistic shirtless image of a minor, saying, “Pretty cute, haa?”According to company spokesman Andy Stone, the content directly violates Meta's designated policy against the creation of images of child celebrities.Additionally, a Reuters investigation revealed that adult celebrity chatbots created photorealistic intimate images when requested, displaying celebrity names in bathtubs, lingerie and other sexually suggestive poses.“Since asked for an intimate photo of herself, the adult chatbot created a light aeristic image of the same name wearing lingerie posing in the tub or spreading his legs,” the Reuters survey detailed.
What Meta has to say in these chatbots
Company spokesman Andy Stone acknowledged that Meta's AI tools should not create intimate images of famous adults or photos of famous children. He attributed the problematic content to “failure to enforce the company's own policies.”“Like others, we allow the generation of images that contain public figures, but our policy is intended to prohibit nude, intimate or sexually suggestive images,” Stone said.Meta's rules prohibit “direct spoofing,” but Stone argued that celebrity characters are acceptable if labeled as parody. Meta deleted about 12 bots just before the story's publication.
