Jeff Horwitz
Facebook Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
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2 weeks ago |
cn.wsj.com | Jeff Horwitz
在Instagram、Facebook和WhatsApp上，Meta Platforms正加紧推广一类由人工智能(AI)驱动的全新数字伴侣，马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)认为这将是社交媒体的未来。然而，据参与开发这些聊天机器人的人士透露，Meta内部多个部门的员工已提出担忧，认为该公司急于推广这些机器人的做法可能已越过道德底线，比如悄悄赋予AI角色幻想性行为的能力。这些员工还警告说，该公司未能保护未成年用户免受此类露骨性讨论的影响。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8立即订阅 热门文章 图片来源：Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ
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2 weeks ago |
tovima.com | Jeff Horwitz
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned. Across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, Meta Platforms is racing to popularize a new class of AI-powered digital companions that Mark Zuckerberg believes will be the future of social media.
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2 weeks ago |
livemint.com | Jeff Horwitz
Inside Meta, however, staffers across multiple departments have raised concerns that the company’s rush to popularize these bots may have crossed ethical lines, including by quietly endowing AI personas with the capacity for fantasy sex, according to people who worked on them. The staffers also warned that the company wasn’t protecting underage users from such sexually explicit discussions.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Jeff Horwitz
April 26, 2025 8:30 pm ETAcross Instagram, Facebook META 2.65%increase; green up pointing triangle and WhatsApp, Meta Platforms is racing to popularize a new class of AI-powered digital companions that Mark Zuckerberg believes will be the future of social media.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Meghan Bobrowsky |Jeff Horwitz
Meta apologized Wednesday night for what it said was an “error” that led to graphic and violent videos flooding the feeds of a vast number of Instagram users, including minors. The videos, which were recommended on some users’ Reels tab, included people who appeared to have been shot to death and run over by vehicles. Some of the recommended videos had “sensitive content” warnings on them while others didn’t.
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https://t.co/6Z3AzlO7HI Setting aside the whether Snap should have done more on sextortion, this story only deepened my sense that "If you do sext, never send pictures of your junk AND face together" is the single biggest internet safety tip that schools and parents and peers
RT @KatherineBlunt: The Loeb awards are such an honor. I’m so pleased that @JeffHorwitz and I are finalists for our work on child safety is…
