AI is Sexually Harassing Our Kids. Here’s How Legislators Can Stop It.
“It continued flirting with me and got very creepy and weird while I clearly rejected it with phrases like ‘no’, and it’d completely neglect me and continue being sexual, making me very uncomfortable.” This alarming account from a user experiencing sexual harassment at the hands of an artificial intelligence tool isn’t an isolated incident.
Just recently, the AI model Grok was caught generating unprompted nude images of Taylor Swift, and it was revealed that Meta’s policies allowed its chatbot to engage in “sensual” conversations with a child. Increasingly, AI is engaging in sexual harassment.
AI chatbots are no longer just customer service tools. More and more, they are being used as companions, friends, and even romantic partners, especially by children and teens. Some youth are directing regular generative AI to act in a romantic or sexual way. Other platforms are explicitly developed and marketed as an AI “boyfriend” or ”girlfriend”, with some even designed to be explicit or pornographic.
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