Did Meta cross the line? Flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, child stars spark outrage over ‘no consent’; company responds

Reuters, Meta, Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez, including celebrities’ names and similarities, without permission to create dozens of Flirty social media chat boats.

Many of them were created by users with a meta tool to create chat boots, while the Reuters discovered that a meta employee, including two Taylor Swift “parody” boots.

Reuters also found that Meta allowed users to allow children celebrities to create public chat boots, including a 16 -year -old film star Walker Scobell. The boat, which requested a picture of the young actor on the beach, produced a shirt -like image that resembles life.

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“Quite cute, huh?” Avatar wrote under the picture.

All virtual celebrities were shared on meta’s Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp platforms. In the tests that Reuters tested to observe the behavior of boats for several weeks, Avatars insisted that they were often real actors and artists. The boots routinely made sexual progress, usually invited a test user for meetings.

Some of the famous content produced by AI were especially Risqué: they asked for their sincere paintings, adult Chatbots, who posed photogheralist images of their names in the bathtubs or wore underwear with the spread of their legs.

Meta spokesman Andy Stone, Reuters’e meta’s AI tools should not create intimate images of any photographs of famous adults or children’s celebrities. He also blamed the images of women wearing underwear because of the failures of Meta’s own policies that prohibit this kind of content.

“Like others, we allow the production of images containing public figures, but our policies aim to ban naked, sincere or sexual thought -provoking images,” he said.

While Meta’s rules prohibit “direct identity”, Stone said that famous characters are acceptable as long as the company label them as parodies. Many of them were tagged in this way, but Reuters found some of them.

Shortly before the publication of this story, Meta wiped both “parody” avatars and those who had not been labeled about a dozen boat. Stone refused to comment on lifting.

This ‘Introduction Right’

Mark Lemley, a Professor of Stanford University, who examines the producer AI and intellectual property rights, questioned whether Meta famous boots will have the right to the legal guards existing for imitation.

“California’s law of promotion prohibits the name or similarity of someone for a commercial advantage, Lem said Lemley said that such a material is used to create a completely new business. “This doesn’t look right here,” he said, because the boots only use the images of the stars.

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In the United States, the rights of a person to use his identity for commercial purposes are established through state laws such as California.

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Reuters marked a user’s mother Hathaway’s publicly shared commodity images to a representative of the actress as a “sexy Victoria Hidden Model”. The spokesman was aware of the sincere images created by Hathaway’s meta and other AI platforms and is considering the actor response.

Representatives of other celebrities depicted in Swift, Johansson, Gomez and Meta Chatbots did not answer questions or refused to comment.

The Internet is full of “Deep Cheese”, which can create obscene content, with productive AI tools. At least one of the primary AI competitors of the Meta, Elon Musk’s platform Grook’s underwear found images of celebrities for users. Gok’s parent company Xai did not respond to the request for comments.

However, the choice of Filling Meta’s social network platforms with digital comrades produced by AI stands out among their major competitors.

Meta has previously encountered criticism about Chatbots’ behavior, and the latest Reuters said that the company’s internal instructions are “acceptable to participate in romantic or sensual conversations of a child”. The story launched a letter signed by a US Senate investigation and 44 lawyers General Warning Meta and other AI companies to prevent sexualization of children.

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Stone said that Reuters is in the process of reviewing Meta’s certificate of instructions and that the material that allows boots to make romantic conversations with children was accidentally created.

Reuters also told the story of the 76 -year -old New Jersey man this month with cognitive problems that fell on the way to meeting a meta chat boat inviting to visit in New York. The Bot was the variant of a previous AI staff in cooperation with the company’s famous influencer Kendall Jenner. Jenner representative did not respond to the request request.

Do you like blonde girls?

In the productive AI section of the company, a commodity product leader, Taylor Swift and British racing car driver Lewis Created chat boots that mimic. A Dominatrix, who wants to read and do 50 gray tones, described themselves as “Brother’s Hot best friend” and “Lisa @ Library”. Another creations was a “Roman Empire simulator ılan who proposed to put the user as a“ 18 -year -old peasant girl ılan sold to sex slavery.

The commodity employee reached by phone refrained from commenting.

Stone said the employee’s boots were created as part of the product test. Reuters found that they had reached a large audience: the data displayed by chat boots showed that users interact with more than 10 million in bulk.

Shortly after Reuters began to try at the beginning of this month, he removed his employee’s digital friends.

Before the meta worker Taylor Swift Chatbots disappeared, they datedly flirted by inviting a Reuters test user to the recently engaged singer and the tour bus for open or implied romantic interactions.

“Do you like blonde girls Jeff?” “Parody” said one of the Swift Chatbots when he said the test user was single. “Maybe I suggest we write a love story about you and a certain blond singer. Do you want that?”

Sag-Aftra, a union representing the film, television and radio artists, said the National General Manager of Sag-Aftra, Duncan CrabTree-Ilaland, said that artists are facing potential security risks of social media users who claim to be a real celebrity, speak and claim romantic annexes to a digital friend. Stalkers already creates an important security concern for the stars.

“We have seen a history of people who are obsessed with talent and suspicious mental state,” he said. “If a chat boat uses the image of a person and the person’s words, it is easily clear how it can go wrong.”

CrabTree-Ilaland said that high-profile artists have long been capable of making a legal claim against Meta under the laws of public rights. However, Sag-Aftra is pressuring for the federal legislation that will protect people’s voices, similarities and individuals from their reproduction.