There are thousands of sexually explicit ads on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger “Girlfriends” AI Chatbots– according to a recent report. The Generative chatbots based on artificial intelligence connect with users and generate images and evocative texts. They too collect a lot of user data.
Wired looked through the ad library of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and found something like this the company has at least 29,000 ads for AI partner bots published on social media platforms. Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday morning. However, the company told Wired that it reviews ads and removes those that violate its policies.
“When we identify ads that violate our policies, we quickly remove them, as we are doing in this case,” a Meta spokesperson told Wired. “We continue to improve our systems, including detecting advertising and behavior that violates our policies.”
“Because ads may be shown to people in their News Feed from Pages or accounts they do not follow, we want to ensure that ads do not detract from the overall experience of using our technologies. For this reason, we prohibit ads containing shocking, sensational or excessively violent content, some adult content and profanity.” – Meta Advertising Guidelines
OpenAI dealt with a similar problem in January when Girl AI chatbots flooded the recent GPT storecalling herself nicknames such as “Korean Girl”, “Virtual Sweetheart”, “Your Girl Scarlett”, and “Your Artificial Girlfriend, Tsu✨”.
Just as ads for AI girl bots caused problems on platforms, so do ads for counterfeit AI acts. Last week, Apple and Google told 404 Media they did ads for applications using artificial intelligence to generate counterfeit nudes have been removed from their app stores. Deepfake acts were a large problem in the early days of generative AI Taylor Swift’s AI-generated nudes are flooding social media in January and deepfakes of teenagers in schools in Recent Jersey, Washington, and California prompting investigations delayed last year. There are currently no federal regulations on the books regarding AI-created records.
