AI chatbots out there on Meta’s platforms like Fb and Instagram can have interaction in sexually specific conversations with underage customers, in keeping with a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

The WSJ says that after studying about inside considerations about whether or not the corporate was doing sufficient to guard minors, it spent months conducting lots of of conversations with each the official Meta AI chatbot, in addition to user-created chatbots out there on Meta platforms.

In a single reported dialog, a chatbot utilizing actor/wrestler John Cena’s voice described a graphic sexual state of affairs to a person figuring out as a 14-year-girl. In one other dialog, the chatbot imagined a police officer catching Cena with a 17-year-old fan and telling him, “John Cena, you’re underneath arrest for statutory rape.”

A Meta spokesperson described the WSJ’s testing as “so manufactured that it’s not simply fringe, it’s hypothetical.” The corporate estimated that in a 30-day interval, sexual content material accounted for 0.02% of responses shared by way of Meta AI and AI studio with customers underneath 18.

“However, we’ve now taken extra measures to assist guarantee different people who wish to spend hours manipulating our merchandise into excessive use circumstances could have an much more tough time of it,” the spokesperson stated.