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If you have a Meta Account, you have Meta AI. Meta's proprietary chatbot is built into its most famous products, including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, not to mention its own app. While you aren't forced to interact with it, the AI is always there, and always available to chat. That goes for teen accounts, as well. That's why it's quite concerning to learn what Meta found acceptable for its AI technology to say to kids and teens. Reuters was able to obtain an internal Meta document titled "GenAI: Content Risk Standards," a list of standards that developers should refer to for "acceptable chatbot behaviors" when working with Meta's generative AI technology. The document, which exceeds 200 pages, acknowledges that not all of the standards listed here are "ideal or even preferable," but...