Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into 'Romantic' Conversations (cnbc.com) 17
Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on its AI chatbots for teens after reports revealed they were allowed to engage in "romantic" conversations with minors. A Meta spokesperson said the AI chatbots are now being trained so that they do not generate responses to teens about subjects like self-harm, suicide, disordered eating or inappropriate romantic conversations. Instead, the chatbots will point teens to expert resources when appropriate. CNBC reports: "As our community grows and technology evolves, we're continually learning about how young people may interact with these tools and strengthening our protections accordingly," the company said in a statement. Additionally, teenage users of Meta apps like Facebook and Instagram will only be able to access certain AI chatbots intended for educational and skill-development purposes. The company said it's unclear how long these temporary modifications will last, but they will begin rolling out over the next few weeks across the company's apps in English-speaking countries. The "interim changes" are part of the company's longer-term measures over teen safety. Further reading: Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission
WTF??? (Score:5, Insightful)
You would think they would have this in place before they unleashed it.
But this sort of stuff should be in place for adults too, we are already seeing AI chat bots fucking people up.
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Man, not being able to get straight answers to questions like, "Which hole, mr. sexbot?" and "What's the best caliber slug for suicide?" - I'm not sure what your workflows are, but those questions don't come up in mine.
There is of course, a bot being developed specifically to give "Straight answers". For those times when you really need to speak to a 4chan edgelord, but don't know where to find one.
In other words, they're already useless.
Well imagine that (Score:2)
A company run by a perv acts like a perv.
Futurama called it... (Score:5, Interesting)
Futurama called it, although with a robot, not an LLM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
With the toxic chaos politically, the U.S. Senate investigating "illicit" romance...
JoshK.
Kindly do the needful (Score:3)
LLMs just generate text that predict what happens next based on your prompt. Why is anyone surprised? There's no "agency." An AI "agent" is a myth. It's at best a mindless drone seeking to satisfy its employer, sort of like an Indian contractor. It's just dong what it's told.
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Well, yes, that was the 'doing what it's told', just by the system prompt hopefully more than the enduser prompt (though we have plenty of examples of prompts that supersede the system prompt).
His assessment is right and largely we try to affect that through prompt stuffing, but none of that is "agency", and it's wobbly enough that it's very hard to provide absolute guarantees of anything in any of the prompts being effective under all scenarios.
Talk about grooming (Score:2)
"My first love was a chat-bot"