Today, we cover a recent disturbing exposé by the Wall Street Journal showing that Facebook's Meta AI can have explicit conversations with minor user accounts. We go over the lack of reasonable guardrails and talk about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. The internet is already dangerous enough for young children to navigate; we don't need AI chatbots making it worse. And does Mark Zuckerberg want people to use these chatbots as a replacement for friends? Later, we discuss Beyoncé's new Cowboy Carter tour, where she criticized America ... by performing the national anthem.

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Timecodes:

(05:10) Meta AI conversations with minors

(28:22) Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI can replace friends

(38:05) Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour

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Links:

Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf?st=UZb7jS

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