Meta ‘s unauthorized AI chatbots of virtual celebrities including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez were “flirty” and “routinely made sexual advances,” according to a Reuters report. The company removed about a dozen of them after a Reuters exposé published Friday found that they were created without the celebs’ knowledge or permission.

According to Reuters , which spent several weeks “testing to observe the bots’ behavior,” the celebrity AI chatbots “often insisted they were the real actors and artists.” The AI bots “routinely made sexual advances, often inviting a test user for meet-ups.” In some cases, when they were asked for “intimate pictures,” the chatbots “produced photorealistic images of their namesakes posing in bathtubs or dressed in lingeri

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