Meta allowed minors access to sex-talking chatbots, documents say


Jeff Horwitz
Contributor

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions, according to internal Meta documents filed in a New Mexico state court case and made public Monday.

The lawsuit – brought by the state’s attorney general, Raul Torrez, and scheduled for trial next month – alleges that Meta “failed to stem the tide of damaging sexual material and …

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