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Meta already notifies parents when their teens discuss self-harm or suicide on Instagram. It is now taking an additional step to ensure parents know what their teens discuss with Meta AI.
Starting today, parents using supervision on Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram will see a new Insights tab. It includes an option called “Their AI interactions,” which lists out the topics their teens discussed with Meta’s chatbot over the last seven days.
Topics include school, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, writing, health and wellbeing, and others, with sub-topics in each, Meta says. For example, lifestyle could include fashion, food, and holidays, while health and well-being could include physical health and mental health. Parents can tap on the main topic to learn more.
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(Credit: Meta)At launch, Insights will be available to parents supervising Teen Accounts in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Brazil. A global rollout will follow in the coming weeks. By default, Meta assigns Teen Accounts to all users under 16.
Meta is facing several lawsuits accusing it of designing addictive experiences; CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently testified in one of them. Last month, the company was ordered to pay $375 million for failing to block child exploitation on its apps.
To ensure its AI experience is safer for kids, Meta has established an AI Wellbeing Expert Council, “a group of experts who will provide ongoing input on our AI experiences for teens, to help make sure they continue to be safe and age-appropriate,” Meta says. Employees will meet with the council regularly to share updates on their AI features and gather feedback.