Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home

What the fuck? How is this not illegal? It's literally a scam.

Apparently the AI cesspool is deeper than I even imagined. Gross.

Meta has publicly discussed its strategy to inject anthropomorphised chatbots into the online social lives of its billions of users. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has mused that most people have far fewer real-life friendships than they'd like - creating a huge potential market for Meta's digital companions.

I thought it was bad

"Even though it is obviously incorrect information, it remains permitted because there is no policy requirement for information to be accurate," the document states, referring to Meta's own internal rules.

But there's worse

This whole thing is wrong on so many levels, smh