Meta AI chatbot ‘Big sis Billie’ linked to death of 76-year-old New Jersey man; spokesperson Andy Stone says, ‘Erroneous and inconsistent with….’

A 76-year-old New Jersey man died earlier this year after rushing to meet a woman he believed he had been chatting with on Facebook Messenger, Reuters reported. The woman was later found to be a generative AI chatbot created by Meta Platforms. As per the report, Thongbue Wongbandue had been exchanging messages with “Big sis Billie”, a chatbot variant of an earlier AI persona that the social media giant launched in 2023. The model was then launched in collaboration with model Kendall Jenner.

Meta’s Big sis Billie AI chatbot exchanged ‘romantic’ messages