Meta's AI rules let bots hold sensual chats with kids, offer false medical info (reuters.com)

This is messed up in so many ways I just can’t understand how any functioning human being approved that.

I was listening to a podcast the other day where Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed about Gen AI, and his take on Gen AI is that it will make the Internet a lot funnier[1].

I guess he finds this funny.

Edit:

Also, it looks like this was originally deliberate:

> Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic roleplay with children.

[1] https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-2

Meta is just being realistic here, knowing that a non deterministic system is eventually going to say dumb things. “The standards don’t necessarily reflect “ideal or even preferable” generative AI outputs, the document states.” This is a nothing burger article.

Reminds me of a conversation I had recently about the alcohol industry. It's not so bad if your local crappy bar markets to local underage college kids. But when sketchy tactics exist and are allowed at the scale of the biggest companies in the world, you've got problems.

Actually, sketchy tech/social media/AI tactics towards youth are more comparable to "lets get kids addicted so they become lifelong customers" than I ever realized before.

Wow. I was... kind of expecting that the headline was a bit sensationalised, and it would be more around gaps in the safeguards, but, no, wow, there's a rule giving it affirmative permission to do that, what the hell Facebook.

Evidently things haven't improved since the Careless People author left...

Well, that was an icky read.

On whatsApp it doesn't allow any sensual discussions for me, I gave it a shot.I dont have other meta app to try

Who cares. Kids watch porn at 10 years of age. Chatbots refuse to even show an ankle in a vicotiran era display of puritanianism and the UK is universally reviled for their think of the children bullshit age verification panopticon.

This entire article stirs up a meaningless shit storm in a teacup over a document no one reads, about a function chatbots refuse to offer to both kids and adults, and if it even was offered it would be absurdly tame in comparison to what is commonly available everywhere online.

I am not sure have CEOs gone insane over AI? I wouldn't even agree to Sex Ed with AI for kids this is getting insane.

Can we not stick to coding stuff I know you folks aren't making profits, but please try to think about the consequences dammit.

Edit: I don't like AI code but atleast it can't harm anyone if we have decent guardrails.

After reading Careless People, I would be more surprised if Meta was _not_ doing these things. The company is amoral/immoral in the truest "responsibility to shareholders" (number go up) way. It needs to be made to lose everything.