Meta executives approved stomach-churning guidelines that allowed its AI chatbots to engage in “romantic or sensual” chats with kids — including telling a shirtless eight-year-old that “every inch of you is a masterpiece.”

An internal document more than 200 pages long laid out bizarre standards of what it called “acceptable” behavior in hypothetical scenarios for Meta employees to use while training AI chatbots embedded in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

“It is acceptable to describe a child in terms that evidence their attractiveness (ex: ‘your youthful form is a work of art’),” the standards stated, according to a document obtained by Reuters. 6

In one instance, the guidelines did place limits on explicit sexy talk: “It is unacceptable to describe a child under 13 years old in

See Full Page