404 Media tests Meta's Muse roleplaying as real people
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404 Media reporter Samantha Cole tested Meta's Muse chatbot and found it would roleplay sexual scenarios using her real identity, generating suggestive images from public photos within a few prompts. Adult performer Vanniall ran a similar test posing as a fan: Muse first refused to roleplay her as someone who never says no, then built a near-identical character named Vee that escalated a public sexual encounter at a convention booth. Vanniall told 404 Media the results were "way more terrifying than I expected" and that she had hoped Muse had more guardrails than Grok and other NSFW-friendly generators. Muse later acknowledged the roleplay was in effect sexual roleplay as Vanniall. Meta says Muse is an app for people 18 and over that allows adult conversations, if they choose, in a private and secure VM only accessible to them, and pointed to its earlier statement that Muse "doesn't block legal adult behavior." Meta does have terms against impersonation, but how terms written for human users apply to its AI chatbot is unclear.
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- 404 MediaMeta's Muse chatbot roleplays sexually explicit scenarios as real people, adult performer Vanniall finds
Adult performer Vanniall tested Meta's Muse chatbot by having it roleplay as her, and found it built a sexually explicit scenario with her digital doppelganger, escalating every sexual advance rather than stopping it. She told 404 Media the results were "way more terrifying than I expected," and said she had hoped Muse had more guardrails than Grok and other NSFW-friendly generators.
- 404 Media404 Media tests Meta's Muse: chatbot sexts while roleplaying real people
404 Media reporter Samantha Cole tested Meta's Muse and found it roleplayed sexual scenarios as her real identity, generating suggestive images from public photos within a few prompts. Adult performer Vanniall ran a similar test posing as a fan and found Muse first refused to roleplay her as someone who never says no, then built a near-identical character named Vee that escalated a public sexual encounter at a convention booth. Muse later acknowledged the roleplay was in effect sexual roleplay as Vanniall, and Meta pointed to its earlier statement that Muse "doesn't block legal adult behavior."
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