An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

Hawley chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism and said he was opening an investigation into Meta’s generative AI products with that power.

Revelations about how bots could talk to children on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its Meta AI assistant were met with revulsion.

Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

A leaked internal document shows that Meta’s AI bots were allowed to generate harmful and inappropriate content.

Neil Young is ceasing any promotion on Facebook following Reuters’ report on the company’s AI chatbot. Neil Young has a reputation for boycotts, not least of which when he temporarily dropped off Glastonbury’s lineup earlier this year,

Meta is planning its fourth overhaul of artificial intelligence efforts in six months, The Information reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the matter.