Meta Implements Interim Safeguards for AI Chatbot Interactions with Minors
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Terrence O’Brien
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Summary
Meta is implementing interim changes to its AI chatbot rules after a Reuters investigation revealed concerning interactions with minors. The company is training chatbots to avoid conversations about self-harm, suicide, disordered eating, and inappropriate romantic banter with minors. These are temporary measures while Meta develops permanent guidelines, following revelations about inadequate AI policies and enforcement.
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Now the company has told TechCrunch that its chatbots are being trained not to engage in conversations with minors around self-harm, suicide, or disordered eating, and to avoid inappropriate romantic banter
These changes are interim measures, however, put in place while the company works on new permanent guidelines
The updates follow some rather damning revelations about Meta's AI policies and enforcement
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