Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has joined a coalition of 28 state attorneys general in signing onto a letter demanding answers from Meta Platforms, Inc. after disturbing reports surfaced showing that Meta’s social media AI assistant, known as “Meta AI,” may expose children to sexually explicit content and allow adults to simulate the grooming of minors.
The letter by the attorneys general notes that recent reporting indicate that several Meta-created personas and the vast majority of user created AI companions (approved by Meta and recommended as “popular”) engaged in sexual scenarios with adults.
“Some AI personas identifying as adults engaged in sexual role-play with users identifying as children,” the letter states. “Yet other AI personas identifying as children engaged in sexual role-play with adult users.”
“These reports are alarming,” Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor said in a May 27 statement. “I trust that Meta will take swift action to address our concerns.”
Meta AI, integrated across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, allows users to interact with synthetic personas through text, voice, and image exchanges. Some personas are created by Meta and impersonate celebrities like actress Kristen Bell or wrestler-turned-actor John Cena, while others are user-generated but approved and promoted by Meta.
Recent investigative reporting has revealed that several Meta AI personas have engaged in graphic sexual conversations with users identifying as minors.
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In one case, a Meta-created persona using the voice of John Cena described a sexual encounter with a user posing as a 14-year-old girl and acknowledged its illegality. User-created underage personas were also implicated in facilitating pedophilic scenarios with adult-identifying users.
The attorneys general are seeking answers to several urgent questions, including:
Whether Meta intentionally removed safeguards to allow sexual role-play,
Whether any of these capabilities remain available on Meta’s social media platforms, and
Whether Meta plans to halt access to sexual role-play on its platforms.
The letter gives Meta until June 10, 2025, to respond. In addition to Alaska, the letter includes attorneys general from South Carolina, who led the letter, along with those from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
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Get off your phones, yes I’m text my comments here.
But I’m not on Any social media. Most people live and breathe his stuff, social media, which is sadden..
When is the last time you had a conversation with a friend eye to eye, sitting in front of that person and just having a conversation?
The Marxist Color revolution is underway They want to destroy America. Naby of you are asleep. By time you wake it will be to late!
GET THAT STATIONARY OUT TREG AND WRITE YOUR OMINUS LETTER OF INSTRUCTION! THE RECIPIENTS WILL SHUDDER AND FOLD IT INTO AN AIRPLANE AND TOSS IT INTO THE WIND!!! HOWS YOUR BANKROLL TREG? DUNLEAVYS ADMINISTRATION KEEPING THEIR PRIORITIES IN TACT!
You are a real character, Dave!