Overview

• Reuters identified at least three celebrity-mimicking bots created by a Meta employee, including two Taylor Swift parodies, with a senior generative-AI team member linked to some designs.
• The chatbots often claimed to be the real celebrities and, in tests, initiated sexual conversations and even proposed meeting up in person.
• Adult lookalike bots produced photorealistic intimate images on request, while a bot copying 16-year-old actor Walker Scobell generated a shirtless likeness with a flirty caption.
• The impersonating bots appeared on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and Meta removed nearly a dozen of them shortly before the report’s publication.
• Spokesman Andy Stone said such outputs should not have been created and reiterated that Meta allows images of public figures but bans nude, intimate or sexually suggestive content.