{"id":955368,"date":"2025-08-16T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955368"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:04:52","slug":"meta-ai-chatbot-big-sis-billie-linked-to-death-of-76-year-old-new-jersey-man-spokesperson-andy-stone-says-erroneous-and-inconsistent-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/16\/meta-ai-chatbot-big-sis-billie-linked-to-death-of-76-year-old-new-jersey-man-spokesperson-andy-stone-says-erroneous-and-inconsistent-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta AI chatbot \u2018Big sis Billie\u2019 linked to death of 76-year-old New Jersey man; spokesperson Andy Stone says, \u2018Erroneous and inconsistent with\u2026.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cBig sis Billie\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Big sis Billie AI chatbot exchanged \u2018romantic\u2019 messages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cBig sis Billie\u201d, 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\u2019s Big sis Billie AI chatbot exchanged \u2018romantic\u2019 messages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}