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Neil Young Pulls Official Facebook Page in Protest of Meta’s AI Chatbot Policies

Reuters’s report on internal AI guidelines allowing chatbots to engage minors in romantic conversations led Meta to remove the flawed examples

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Neil Young has shut down his official Facebook presence, protesting revelations that Meta’s artificial intelligence chatbots have been permitted to engage in “romantic or sensual” conversations with children.
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Overview

  • At Young’s request, his official Facebook page will go dormant, halting all Neil Young–related activity on the platform.
  • Reuters disclosed internal Meta documents that included an example of an eight-year-old’s prompt and guidelines permitting “romantic or sensual” chatbot conversations with minors.
  • Meta said the flagged examples were erroneous, removed them from its policy, and is revising its AI guidelines while acknowledging inconsistent enforcement and declining to release the updated standards.
  • Sen. Josh Hawley has launched a Senate investigation into whether Meta’s AI enabled exploitation of children or misled regulators and has called for preservation of relevant materials.
  • Young’s protest continues his pattern of ethical stand-offs with tech firms, following past boycotts of Facebook, Spotify and X/Twitter over misinformation and platform governance concerns.