{"id":987886,"date":"2026-01-26T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987886"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:23:28","slug":"facebook-parent-meta-realises-ai-characters-can-be-dangerous-for-kids-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/facebook-parent-meta-realises-ai-characters-can-be-dangerous-for-kids-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook-parent Meta realises AI characters can be &#8216;dangerous&#8217; for kids, bans &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it is implementing a global temporary \u201cpause\u201d that will ban the teenagers\u2019 access to its cast of AI characters. The move comes as the social media giant is looking to change its generative AI strategy to prioritise parental oversight and safety controls after pressure from child safety advocates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn October, we shared that we\u2019re building new tools to give parents more visibility into how their teens use AI, and more control over the AI characters they can interact with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it is implementing a global temporary \u201cpause\u201d that will ban the teenagers\u2019 access to its cast of AI characters. The move comes as the social media giant is looking to change its generative AI strategy to prioritise parental oversight and safety controls after pressure from child safety advocates. \u201cIn October, we shared that we\u2019re building new tools to give parents more visibility into how their teens use AI, and more control over the AI characters they can interact with.<\/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-987886","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\/987886","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=987886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}