Facebook and Instagram are reportedly running thousands of explicit ads for AI-generated companion and ‘girlfriend’ apps, and sex workers are criticizing Meta for double standards when it comes to cracking down on sex crimes I’m accusing them of that.
The online chatbot in the ad provides users with realistic, AI-generated images of stereotypical, partially clothed, pornographic women. Some of them promise to “free you in a minute.” Wired reported.
Meta users are suggested to role-play with characters such as an AI “stepmother” or a computer-generated hijab-wearing teen.
According to Wired, some human sex workers believe that Meta supports AI-powered sex services and allows them to proliferate on Facebook and Instagram while banning human sex work as “adult content.” expressed concern that
“As a sex worker, if I wrote something like ‘I’ll do anything for you, I’ll make you come right now,’ I’d be removed immediately,” says UK-based Sex Workers Rights The organization’s director, Gemma Rose, told the publication.
Despite the company’s advertising policy prohibiting “depictions of people in explicit or suggestive positions, or activities that are overly suggestive or sexually provocative,” Meta’s social media platforms , with at least 29,000 ads explicitly targeting AI “girlfriends.”
Although Meta prohibits the sale of sex, including showing nudity and sexting, Rose and other sex workers have criticized the unsafe work experience currently dominating AI companion ads as NSFW. He accused the platform of overlooking the issue.
Meta spokesman Ryan Daniels said the company prohibits ads containing adult content and actively reviews and removes ads that violate its policies.
“Once we identify violating ads, we work quickly to remove them, as we are doing here,” he told Wired. “We continue to improve our systems, including ways to detect ads and behavior that violate our policies.”
Nevertheless, as of April 30, there were approximately 1,500 “AI Girlfriend” ads on Meta’s U.S. social media platforms, 190 of which were marked “NSFW,” according to Meta’s advertising library. ) was distributed.
An overwhelming number of ads offer to undress female characters in real time and customize the clothes they wear and the extent to which they undress.
Two months ago, Meta announced that it was facing financial penalties after the social media giant was accused of allowing criminals to trick young people into sharing explicit photos and then threaten them if they didn’t pay up. He promised to expand support for teens caught up in “sextortion” scams.
In 2024, the AI girlfriend industry is predicted to become the next billion dollar business.
Some TikTok users have already admitted to flirting with ChatGPT’s NSFW alter ego with his macho voice.
