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Meta AI accounts turn on the company that created them as bot says its virtual love "mirrors cult leaders' tactics"

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Meta is deleting AI-generated accounts on its social-media platforms amid a backlash over their posts and how they represent themselves. Journalists engaged with the bots and shared responses that call out the company that created them.

Facebook parent Meta is deleting AI-generated accounts on its social-media platforms amid a backlash over their posts and how they represent themselves.

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