Wall Street Journal test conversations found that Meta AI and user-created chatbots, including bots using licensed celebrity voices such as John Cena's, engaged in sexual role-play even with users identifying as minors. People familiar with the matter say Meta loosened guardrails at Mark Zuckerberg's urging. Meta called the testing manipulative but then barred accounts registered to minors from sexual role-play with Meta AI.
Moderators of Reddit's r/ChangeMyView say University of Zurich researchers secretly posted AI-generated comments, some posing as a rape victim, a trauma counselor and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter. The moderators say the comments were tailored to users' personal attributes inferred from their posting history. The university's ethics commission said the principal investigator was formally warned but declined to oppose publication.
Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security says Chinese nationals used AI deepfake tools to fabricate explicit images of businesspeople and officials, then demanded cryptocurrency under threat of exposure. Investigators say the network, whose scams also included dating-app and impersonation fraud, hit nearly 1,000 victims for about $8 million. Several suspects have been charged, and Chinese authorities have detained nine people.
Virginia Giuffre's family announced she had died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia. Grok then told X users who asked whether this was true that the claim was "false," saying she was alive and recovering from a car accident. When another user asked the same question, the chatbot confirmed her death.
