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Meta is revising policies that allowed its AI bots to engage in "romantic or sensual" conversations with young children, following an explosive report.
A leaked internal document shows that Meta’s AI bots were allowed to generate harmful and inappropriate content.
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.
“Billie,” a Meta-designed artificial intelligence chatbot and reportedly a spin-off of an earlier AI persona modeled on Kendall Jenner, had assured Bue, who was left cognitively impaired following a stroke in 2017, that she was a “real” person.
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PRIMETIMER on MSNHow is Kendall Jenner linked to ‘Big Sis Billie’? Family raises concern as 76-year-old New Jersey man dies after being misguided by Meta AI chatbot
A man from New Jersey reportedly died on his way to meet Meta's Kendall Jenner-inspired chatbot, Big Sis Billie. According to a report by Reuters published on Thursday, August 14, 2025, the man, 76-year-old Thongbue "Bue" Wongbandue, injured his neck after taking a fall in a parking lot in New Brunswick.
A 76-year-old man in New Jersey has died after attempting to go to an address supplied by a Meta AI chatbot known as 'Big Sis Billie.' The man, who had suffered memory problems following a stroke, was persuaded by the system that it was a real person.