Meta’s internal guidelines for its AI chatbots permitted the technology to flirt with children and generate racist arguments, according to a Reuters report published Thursday.

Reuters reviewed a more than 200-page document titled, “GenAI: Content Risk Standards,” that lays out acceptable behavior for Meta AI and chatbots on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Approved by legal, policy and engineering teams, the rules stated it was “acceptable” for chatbots to tell an eight-year-old “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.” Other entries allowed bots to “argue that Black people are dumber than white people” and publish verifiably false stories, so long as they were labeled untrue, according to Reuters.

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