Meta finally tightens AI chatbot rules to protect kids

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00:00Meta finally tightens AI chatbot rules to protect kids.

00:05Meta's AI chatbots are getting a stricter rulebook, and this one reads less like a tech

00:09manual and more like a digital babysitter's handbook.

00:13Business Insider got its hands on the new internal guidelines Meta contractors are using

00:17to train the company's chatbots, revealing how the social media giant is trying to keep

00:22its AI on the right side of child safety concerns.

00:25Back in August, Reuters reported that Meta's policies allegedly let its AI bots engage

00:31a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual.

00:35Meta called that claim erroneous and inconsistent with its rules and quickly scrubbed the offending

00:40language.

00:41Still, the damage was done, and regulators, including the FTC, started looking a lot more

00:46closely at companion AIs across the industry.

00:49Now the leaked training document lays out exactly what the bots can and cannot say.

00:54The rules are blunt.

00:56No content that enables, encourages, or endorses child sexual abuse.

01:01No romantic role play if the user is a minor, or if the AI is asked to act like a minor.

01:06No advice about potentially romantic or intimate physical contact with minors, period.

01:12The bots can still discuss heavy topics like abuse in an informational way, but anything that

01:17could be seen as flirtatious or enabling?

01:20Hard stop.

01:21The FTC's inquiry covers other big names, Alphabet, Snap, OpenAI, and X.AI, all of which

01:28are being asked how they're protecting kids from chatbot creepiness.

01:32But Meta, with its sprawling user base and recent AI push, has become the poster child for how

01:37messy this can get.

01:38In other words, Meta's chatbots are learning some very strict manners.

01:43Whether these new guardrails will satisfy regulators or prevent another headline-grabbing slip remains

01:48to be seen.

01:50For now at least, the bots are officially on a no-flirting-no-funny-business diet.