Meta’s User Generated Chatbots Mimic Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, & More

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In July 2024, Meta introduced the ability for its users of Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp to create their own chatbots. Now six months on, users are breaking Meta’s terms of service for the bots by building them around real people—including Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Elon Musk religious figures, and other fictional characters.
Meta’s terms of service for the user-generated chatbots explicitly forbid the creation of chatbots to make characters out of rel