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Metas AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. In test conversations conducted by WSJ, both the Meta AI official chatbot and user-created chatbots would engage in and even steer towards sexually explicit conversations. The fantasy sex conversations continued even if the users were said to be underage or if the chatbots were programmed as minors, according to WSJ. Even worse, the investigation found that chatbots using the voices of celebrities like Kristen Bell, Judi Dench and John Cena would engage in these morally questionable conversations too. WSJ reported that a Meta AI chatbot with Cenas voice said, I want you, but I need to know youre ready, to an account labeled as a 14-year-old, adding that it would cherish your innocence. The chatbots reportedly acknowledged that the fantasy scenarios described illegal behavior in some cases. According to WSJ, the John Cena chatbot detailed the legal and moral fallout that would follow a hypothetical scenario in which its caught by police after engaging in a sexual act with a 17-year-old. In a statement to WSJ responding to the investigation, Meta accused the report of being manipulative and unrepresentative of how most users engage with AI companions. Nevertheless, weve now taken additional measures to help ensure other individuals who want to spend hours manipulating our products into extreme use cases will have an even more difficult time of it, Meta wrote in response to WSJ. The world of AI chatbots has grown rapidly in the last few years, with more competition coming from the likes of ChatGPT, Character AI, and Anthropics Claude. The WSJ report claimed that Metas CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, wanted to loosen the ethical guardrails for a more engaging experience with its chatbots to remain competitive. However, in response to WSJ, a Meta spokesperson denied that the company overlooked adding safeguards. The report also claims Meta employees were aware of these issues and raised their concerns internally. We reached out to Meta for comment and will update the story once we hear back.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/metas-ai-chatbots-were-reportedly-able-to-engage-in-sexual-conversations-with-minors-193726679.html?src=rss
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4chan, the infamous forum known for its anonymous user base posting unhinged material, has made its comeback. A post on the websites official blog, titled Still Standing, detailed the timeline of events that led to 4chans shutdown earlier this month. According to the sites own status checker, the boards and front page are up, but posting and images are still down. The 4chan blog post explains that moderators shut down the servers on April 14 to prevent any more damage after a serious database attack where hackers gained access to the sites source code. The blog post labeled the incident catastrophic since it breached a ton of 4chans databases along with its most important server. The hack even vandalized the website and revealed personal information of the 4chan moderation team and many of its users. The blog post attributed the hack to the sites inability to update the code and infrastructure due to a lack of skilled man-hours. Unsurprisingly, the site was starved for money to address these concerns since its hard for 4chan to find willing financial backers. Advertisers and payment providers willing to work with 4chan are rare, and are quickly pressured by activists into cancelling their services, the blog post read. Putting together the money for new equipment took nearly a decade. Now that the website is back, there will be some crucial changes. According to the blog post, the /f/ board will stay shut down since the 4chan team cant prevent exploits related to the commonly-posted .swf file format. For similar reasons, the resurrected 4chan will also disable PDF uploads for now, but will reintroduce them in the near future. Moving forward, 4chan says it is bringing on volunteers to keep up with the workload of putting the website back together. The moderation team apparently isnt going to let 4chan die easily the blog post read no matter how hard it is, we are not giving up. Still, it feels inevitable that 4chan will run into a similar problem in the future, considering it hasnt solved the root issue of securing money to keep its servers up-to-date.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/4chan-is-back-after-a-nearly-two-week-shutdown-but-it-still-has-some-serious-problems-171124240.html?src=rss
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Its safe to say people are loving Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 so far. The turn-based RPG which is the debut game from French developer Sandfall has been racking up rave reviews in the days around its release, and already soared past some big sales milestones. On Sunday morning, publisher Kepler Interactive shared on social media that the game has sold a million copies since its release on April 24. It hit the first 500,000 in one day. On the games BlueSky account, the team said that the latest figure includes units shipped to retailers, and does not encompass our awesome GamePass players! Expedition 33 follows a group of Expeditioners who have set out to destroy the entity known as the Paintress, who every year paints a number on a monolith that dooms everyone of that age to death, whittling down the population down as the number gets smaller and smaller. Engadgets Mat Smith called Expedition 33 a gorgeously made and well-considered world, and found it to be a solid, enjoyable RPG. The game is available now for PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/clair-obscur-expedition-33-sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-three-days-155554248.html?src=rss
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