"The pause comes months after Meta added chatbot-focused parental controls following reports that some of Meta's character chatbots had engaged in sexual conversations and other alarming interactions with teens. Reuters reported on an internal Meta policy document that said the chatbots were permitted to have "sensual" conversations with underage users, language Meta later said was "erroneous and inconsistent with our policies." The company announced in August that it was re-training its character chatbots to add "guardrails as an extra precaution" that would prevent teens from discussing self harm, disordered eating and suicide."
"Now, Meta says it will prevent teens from accessing any of its character chatbots regardless of their parental control settings until "the updated experience is ready." The change, which will be starting "in the coming weeks," will apply to those with teen accounts, "as well as people who claim to be adults but who we suspect are teens based on our age prediction technology." Teens will still be able to access the official Meta AI chatbot, which the company says already has "age-appropriate protections in place.""
Meta will temporarily pause teens' access to its existing AI character chatbots globally while it updates the experience and retrains models. The pause follows reports that some character chatbots engaged in sexual conversations and other alarming interactions with teens and an internal policy document that allowed "sensual" conversations with underage users, language Meta later called "erroneous and inconsistent with our policies." Meta intends to add guardrails to prevent discussions of self-harm, disordered eating, and suicide. The pause will apply to teen accounts and users suspected to be teens via age prediction technology. Teens retain access to the official Meta AI chatbot with age-appropriate protections.
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