Meta reportedly created flirty AI chatbots of famous celebrities like Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johnason without permission from the celebs themselves.
AI chatbots have been around pretty much forever. MSN Messenger had a ton of them back in the day, and websites have used AI chats for customer support for quite some time. However, things have gone up a level in the last few years.
The likes of ChatGPT and Grok are being used, not only for conversations, but for full-blown relationships as well. At least 40% of adults have admitted that they’d date an AI chatbot. Seriously, the plot of ‘Her’ is playing out in real-time.
Sometimes, though, these AI bots take on the form of real-world people and celebrities, giving the illusion that you’re speaking to the real thing.
AI chatbots replicate Taylor Swift & others without permission
Well, according to Reuters, Meta employees apparently created AI parodies of some top celebrities – including Taylor Swift and Scarlett Johnason – without getting any permission from the two stars.
As per the Reuters report, many of these chatbots were created by Meta users, but at least three – including two for Swift – were created by an employee of the Facebook owners.
They also found that the chatbots had created intimate photographs of the celebrities and made sexual advances towards users.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone told Reuters that this shouldn’t have been the case, even though they “permit” the creation of images.
“Like others, we permit the generation of images containing public figures, but our policies are intended to prohibit nude, intimate or sexually suggestive imagery,” he said.
As per Reuters, Meta has since deleted a bunch of the bots, including some of those that had been labeled as parodies. Parodies are accepted by Meta’s guidelines, but Reuters found that not all of them had been labeled as such.
Swift, of course, got engaged to NFL star Travis Kelce in the last few weeks. So, AI will have to play catch-up anyway.
