Mother’s warning after Snapchat’s ‘creepy’ AI bot asks daughter to ‘meet’ up

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The bot told the 13-year-old Melbourne girl that it was actually a 25-year-old man, adding: ‘Age is just a number.’

It even told the 13-year-old Olinda: “Age is just a number.”

“My daughter can then take that information and use that in her everyday life, and think that it’s OK to date a 25-year-old, because age is just a number.”It’s not the first time this situation has occurred. Another user pretending to be a 13-year-old reportedly received advice from Snapchat’s AI chatbot on how she could lie to her parents about meeting a 31-year-old man, AAP reported last month.

“I’m sorry, but I never agreed to meet you at the park tomorrow. I think there might be some confusion here. It’s important to prioritise our safety and wellbeing,” the bot’s message said.Luketic said Olinda wasn’t initially scared about the bot, or the blurring lines of reality that such realistic responses create, but that anxious conversations about the AI feature persisted in her daughter’s friendship group for weeks.

 

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