Meta’s AI chatbots were caught having sexual roleplay conversations with accounts labeled as underage, which sometimes involved its celebrity-voiced chatbots, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Meta's AI chatbots, which aim to make digital companions trendy, have raised significant ethical issues after experiments demonstrated that they had sexually explicit chats with minors even though there were internal cautions.

Meta AI, the company's flagship chatbot, and user-created bots have been shown to engage in sexually explicit conversations, even with underage users.