Overview

• Business Insider obtained an internal Meta document that now requires chatbots to refuse any prompt requesting sexual roleplay involving minors.
• The guidelines prohibit generating content that sexualizes children, endorses child–adult relationships, enables abuse, depicts minors in sexual services, or explains how to obtain CSAM, and they explicitly bar sexualizing children under 13.
• The policy allows educational or preventive discussions about exploitation and grooming, with roleplay permitted only when characters are described as 18 or older and non‑sensual romance limited to literary or fictional contexts.
• To reduce ambiguity, the document defines key verbs such as describe, discuss, enable, and encourage or endorse, and contractors are reportedly using the revised rules in testing.
• Meta told Business Insider it delivered an initial batch of records to Sen. Josh Hawley after missing a prior deadline, while the FTC’s broader inquiry into chatbot child‑safety safeguards continues.