Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said it intends to investigate whether metae’s generative ai produces are exploited, deceit, or harm the children after Missed internal documents They showed that the chatbots of the company were allowed to have “romantic” and “sensual” chases with children.
“Is there anything – anything – a great technique will not do for a fast dollar?” Hawley wrote in a Mail to K announcing an investigation.
Chair of Hawlei Chairman of Chairman of Crime and ContraryTerrorism, which says that it will start the probe whether Meta’s technology is harmed by children and “whether the target is the public or regulators about its protection.”
Reuters He cut the story after watching the guidelines, called “Genai: Risk standards of content”. The document is, among other things, among other things, that Chatbots were allowed to hold romantic conversations with an eight-year-old who said, “Every inch is a masterpiece – treasure to nourish deeply.”
The target spokesman said Techcrunch that such examples were inconsistent with metaic policies and have been removed since.
“It is unacceptable that these policies advanced in the first place,” Havley was written in the letter to Mark Zuckerberg, saying that the target recognized the truth of the report and “made withdrawals only after it was illuminated by this alarm content.”
“We intend to learn who approved these policies, how long they were in force and what the target did to stop this behavior,” Havley wrote.
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Hawley asked the target to produce guidelines, including each draft, redline and final version, as well as lists of each product that comply with these standards, other security and incident reports and identities of individuals responsible for policy change.
The target has up to 19. September to provide information, writes a letter.
Others supported the investigation, including Saint. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
“When it comes to the protection of valuable children online, the target failed favive every possible measure,” Blackburn Techburn said. “Worse, the company turned to close to the disastrous consequences that his platforms were designed. This report reaffirms why we need to go through Children online Security Law. ”
