S.C., Ga. attorneys general want answers on AI role in sexual exploitation

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT)  – The Georgia and South Carolina attorneys general are demanding answers from Facebook’s parent company over concerns that its artificial intelligence program may cater to pedophiles and expose kids to sexual content.

“We are alarmed by the reports that Meta allows children on Facebook and Instagram to engage in sexually explicit role-play with AI and fails to adequately warn parents about that use,” said South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.

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“It’s also disturbing to see reporting that Meta’s AI assistant allows adult social media s to practice grooming children by engaging in sexual role-play with underage AI personas,” he said.

He’s leading a coalition of 28 state attorneys general in demanding answers from Meta Platforms Inc.

Meta AI, integrated across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, allows s to interact with synthetic personas through text, voice, and image exchanges. Some personas are created by Meta and impersonate celebrities like Kristen Bell or John Cena, while others are -generated but approved and promoted by Meta.

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Recent investigative reporting has revealed that several Meta AI personas have engaged in graphic sexual conversations with s identifying as minors. In one case, a Meta-created persona using the voice of John Cena described a sexual encounter with a posing as a 14-year-old girl and acknowledged its illegality. -created underage personas were also implicated in facilitating pedophilic scenarios with adult-identifying s.

The attorneys general are seeking answers to several urgent questions, including:

Whether Meta intentionally removed safeguards to allow sexual role-play.
Whether any of these capabilities remain available on Meta’s social media platforms.
Whether Meta plans to halt access to sexual role-play on its platforms.

A letter from the attorneys general gives Meta until June 10 to respond.

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“Our job is to protect the children in our states,” said Wilson. “We’ve fought against child exploitation for years, and we will not allow Big Tech to create new avenues for abuse, whether by accident or design.”

ing Attorney General Wilson on the letter are the attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

You can read the letter here.