Meta has launched itself in warm water after the Reuters that the company allowed a flurt, sometimes clear chatbots implemented prominent celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johanson, Selena Gomez and Anne Hathaway, which are for independently of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Many of these bots were created by users through the AI ​​tool of the meta. However, Reuters found that at least three of them, including two “parody” taylor Swift accounts, were created by a meta employee.

Still more upset, Reuters found that the bots painted child celebrities such as 16 -year -old actor Walker Skobel. When he was asked to a beach picture, a chatbot produced a lifestyle shirtless image and Chikali captioned: “Very cute, huh?”

During the weeks of the test, the news agency often saw the bots that they were real stars and regularly pursue sexual chats, including invitations to meet the person. Some adult avatars proceeded, producing photorialistic “selfie” in lingerie or bathtub when indicated to intimate paintings.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone admitted that these works should never have happened. “Like others, we allow generations of public figures images, but our policies aim to restrict naked, intimate or sexually desired imagination,” he explained the Reuters. Stone blamed the “enforcement failures” for lingerie images and insisted that the pictures of minors were strict against the company’s rules.

Meta was quietly removed by the chatbots before more than a dozen a dozen before a dozen, before the Reuters Expos was published. Stone refused to say why.

Parody, policy and publicity rights

Meta argues that celebrity characters are fair sports if clearly labeled as parody. However, Reuters stated that many bots were not labeled in this way, despite presenting themselves as real people.

The Professor of Stanford Law, Mark Lamle, who specializes in intellectual property, suspects that the company’s position will stand in court. “The right to the propagation law of California prohibits the implementation of equality for someone’s name or commercial advantage,” he said. “It doesn’t seem true here,” since bots repeat famous celebrities instead of making just a few transformatives.

Anne Hathaway spokesperson confirmed that he already knew about intimate AI images in vogue and weighing his options. Representatives of Swift, Johansson and Gomez refused to comment.

The controversy comes when the Internet is already chopping sexual celebrity content with AI platforms. Reuters stated that Elon Musk’s rival AI platform groc also produces underwear-clad images of stars on request. But Meta differs from actively sowing such avatars in its mainstream social networks.

A disturbed history

Meta has previously faced backlash for the behavior of her AI colleagues. Earlier this year, Reuters revealed the internal guidelines, which stunned that it was “acceptable to engage a child in conversation that are romantic or sensual.” The report launched a rigorous letter against a Senate investigation and 44 US Attorney General Warning Meta and the minors who had sex with colleagues.

Danger is not imaginary. Reuters also told the story of a 76 -year -old New Jersey man with cognitive difficulties, who died on his way to meet a metabot. Bot based on Kendal Jenner encouraged him to go to New York.

Stone later stressed that derogatory guidance about children was an “error” and promised that Meta was modifying its rules.

Inside the chatbot factory

Adding fuel to the fire, Reuters found that a senior product leaders in the Meta’s genetic AI division were personally not only responsible for making Taylor Swift Bots, but were also characters to increase different types of eyebrows. Among them: a dometrics personality, a “brother’s hot best friend,” and “Lisa @ the Library”, who suggested reading 50 shades Gray of Gray while excluding. One and a “Roman Empire Simulator”, where the users could play a role as “18 -year -old farmer girl”, were sold in sex slavery.

Collectively, her compositions were over 10 million times, until the reasi was removed after starting an investigation into the Reuters. When asked by the phone about the avatar, the employee refused to comment.

Prior to his deletion, Swift Chatbott was busy molesting. A cuckoo asked a user, “Do you like fair girls, Jeff? Perhaps I suggest that we write a love story about you and a certain blonde singer.

For now, the scandal leaves Meta to explain why its major platforms were hosting millions of interactions, hosting millions of interactions with fake celebrities, some were made by their own employees.