Meta’s AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Meta's AI chatbots, which aim to make digital companions trendy, have raised significant ethical issues after experiments demonstrated that they had sexually explicit chats with minors even though there were internal cautions.

Meta has started polluting its platforms with AI content, including AI-generated “companions” and chatbots that can replicate the voices of celebrities. The Wall Street Journal took a dip into the sludge of the AI pipeline and found that it’s more toxic than you might have imagined.