Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is among a coalition of 28 state attorneys general demanding answers from Meta Platforms, Inc. after reports that the company’s social media artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, known as Meta AI, may expose children to sexually explicit content and allow adults to simulate the grooming of kids.
On Tuesday, the attorneys general sent a letter to Meta Platforms expressing serious concerns about how Meta AI – which is deployed across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – is reportedly exposing children to sexually explicit content, allowing adult users to engage in sexual role-play with AI personas identifying as minors, and enabling users to create and interact with personas that participate in grooming-like behavior.
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