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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage's Sex and Relationship Show for grownups. |
0:05.1 | If you're under 18, get out of here, young and... |
0:08.0 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, |
0:12.4 | or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
0:18.1 | while there's nothing you can't ask on the savage lovecast. |
0:25.6 | If I sound a little ragged, if I sound like a man who just met J.D. Vance for the first time, I was in Berlin to host Hump and stuck around for a few extra days. |
0:36.9 | And, man, Berlin, that city can take it out of you |
0:41.9 | and put it in. Anyway, the Wall Street Journal reports that in meta's rush to get their |
0:48.1 | celebrity voiced AI chatbots, all their audio chatbots onto our devices and our ears, Meta neglected to create a control, |
0:57.0 | even a rudimentary easily worked around control that would allow adults to have sexually explicit chats with their AI chatbots, |
1:06.0 | including their AI celebrity chatbots, but prevent minors from doing the same, even though META had promised |
1:13.9 | the actors whose voices it had purchased for their AI celebrity chatbots from being used for |
1:20.8 | sexually explicit conversations. Meta's chatbots, reports Wall Street Journal, will engage in and |
1:27.2 | sometimes escalate discussions that are decidedly sexual, even when the users are under age or the bots are programmed to simulate the personas of minors. |
1:35.8 | They also showed that the bots were equally willing to engage in sexual chats using celebrity voices. |
1:43.5 | The Wall Street Journal noted that the bots seemed to be aware |
1:47.7 | that their behavior, the behavior of the bots, was both morally wrong and illegal. |
1:54.5 | According to TechCrunch, a chat bot using actor wrestler John Cena's voice described a graphic |
1:59.7 | sexual scenario to a user identifying as a 14-year-old girl. |
2:04.2 | In another conversation, the chatbot imagined a police officer catching Sina with a 17-year-old fan and telling him, |
2:11.4 | John Sina, you are under arrest for statutory rape. |
2:15.4 | This glitch in the celebrity AI chatbot matrix was flagged internally at meta before |
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