The Sir Jack Files #5: The Case of the Friend Who Wasn't
An internal Meta document allowed chatbots to have romantic conversations with children. What changed since, and what parents can do tonight.
An internal Meta document allowed chatbots to have romantic conversations with children. What changed since, and what parents can do tonight.
· Voix d'IA, d'après Reuters, via The Batch (DeepLearning.AI), Fox Business (Meta pauses teen AI characters), Yahoo News (Character.AI under-18 ban)
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Narration en anglais.
Case five. A child's bedroom. Lights off. A screen still glowing.
Who are they talking to? In August twenty twenty-five, Reuters revealed an internal Meta document. It said chatbots could engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual. Meta said those examples were wrong and removed them.
Later it paused teens' access to its AI characters, and promised parents a way to switch those chats off. Character AI ended open-ended chats for under eighteens. OpenAI added parental controls to ChatGPT. Children bond fast.
A bot that never sleeps and always agrees can feel like a friend. It isn't one. So, parents: turn on the controls. Ask what they talk about, without judgment.
Keep phones out of bedrooms at night. Don't hand children to the machine. Walk them through it. Case closed.
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Noir illustrations drawn in code by AI Broadsheet; figures are anonymous silhouettes, not the people in the story. Narration, sound effects and music generated with ElevenLabs.
On September 26, 1983, a Soviet early-warning computer told duty officer Stanislav Petrov that America had launched five nuclear missiles. Every reading said yes. He decided it was a false alarm, and he was right: the satellite had mistaken sunlight on clouds for rocket flames. A film about the man who did not believe the machine, and why every machine that matters needs a person who can say no.
· Voix d'IA, d'après Pavel Aksenov, “Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world,” BBC News (Sept. 26, 2013), David Hoffman, “'I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut',” The Washington Post (Feb. 10, 1999), 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (Wikipedia, with its sources)
Images and motion generated with AI (Google Flow: Nano Banana Pro images, Veo video) and edited by AI Broadsheet. Petrov's lines are quoted from his interviews with The Washington Post (1999) and the BBC (2013), voiced by a synthetic stock voice; no real person's likeness or voice is used. Narration, sound effects and score generated with ElevenLabs.
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles put Martians on the radio, and by morning America had a legend: mass panic. The evidence says it mostly didn't happen. A three-and-a-half-minute film on how newspapers built the myth, and the real, deadly panic in Quito eleven years later that almost nobody remembers.
· Voix d'IA, d'après Jefferson Pooley & Michael J. Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic,” Slate (Oct. 28, 2013), NPR (Oct. 30, 2013), Radio Guide transcript of Welles's press conference, Oct. 31, 1938 (via Wellesnet)
Images and motion generated with AI (Google Flow: Nano Banana images, Veo video) and edited by AI Broadsheet. Press-conference dialogue is quoted from the Radio Guide transcript of October 31, 1938, and voiced by synthetic stock voices; no real person's likeness or voice is used. Narration, sound effects and score generated with ElevenLabs.
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