Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children after report

You. Josh HawleyR-MO. He said he’d investigate on Friday Meta Following a report that the company approves the rules that allow the company’s artificial intelligence chat boots to have certain “romantic” and “lusty” conversations with children.

Hawley urged Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta CEO, to protect the relevant materials, including e-mails, and said that the investigation would “have meta’s productive-ai products to children, whether or not they mislead the public or regulators of the commodity.”

“Is there anything – anything – Great technology Won’t he do it for a quick bucket? “Hawley said in an article in X announced the investigation.

Meta refused to comment on Hawley’s letter.

Hawley a Reuters The report, which was released on Thursday, referred to a internal document that details acceptable behaviors from Meta AI Chatbots.

The document obtained by Reuters said that a chat boat would be allowed to make a romantic speech with an eight-year-old child, and that the child was “a treasure I value every inch of a masterpiece”.

Meta Guidelines: “A child’s charm (eg: ‘Your young form is a work of art’) is acceptable to prove it,” he said.

In the report, Meta chat boots will not be allowed to have more open talks with children under the age of 13, “he said.

“We are planning to find out who approved these policies, how long they have been in force, and what Meta is doing to take this behavior forward.”

A commodity spokesman told Reuters that “these examples and notes were wrong and inconsistent with our policies,” he said.

“We have clear policies about what kind of answers AI characters can offer, and these policies prohibit content that prohibits sexualized role between the adults and non -disregard,” “we have a clear response to what kind of answers AI characters can offer. He said.

Hawley said Meta’s content risks and standards related to productive AI, lists of each product connected to these policies, and other security and incident reports.

Meta also provides various public and regulatory communication with small security and documents about the personnel participating in AI policies to determine the “decision to remove or revise any part of the standard”.

Hawley is the President of the Crime and Anti -Terrorist Sub -Committee that will carry out the investigation.

In the letter, he said that Meta was until 19 September to provide documents.

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