Meta Temporarily Blocks Teens from AI Characters During Safety Update
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Jay Peters
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Summary
Meta is temporarily blocking teens from accessing its AI characters while developing a new version with improved parental controls and better user experience. The change will take effect in the coming weeks as part of Meta's ongoing efforts to enhance safety features for younger users interacting with AI technology.
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The change blocking teens from accessing the characters will go into effect 'starting in the coming weeks.'
Since we announced our plans to build parental controls for AI characters in October, we started developing a new iteration of AI characters generally (i.e. for both adults and teens).
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