{"id":988605,"date":"2026-01-29T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988605"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:21:03","slug":"meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-rejected-turn-off-switch-for-teen-ai-chatbots-lawsuit-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-rejected-turn-off-switch-for-teen-ai-chatbots-lawsuit-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected &#8220;turn off&#8221; switch for teen AI chatbots, lawsuit alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected safety measures for AI chatbots that his own staff warned could engage in sexual conversations with minors, according to internal documents filed in a New Mexico lawsuit. The communications, obtained through legal discovery and made public Monday, show Zuckerberg pushed for &#8220;less restrictive&#8221; policies and blocked parental controls despite concerns from Meta&#8217;s child safety team, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>Internal messages from March 2024 reveal employees stating they &#8220;pushed hard for parental controls to turn GenAI off&#8221; but were overruled by leadership citing Zuckerberg&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected safety measures for AI chatbots that his own staff warned could engage in sexual conversations with minors, according to internal documents filed in a New Mexico lawsuit. The communications, obtained through legal discovery and made public Monday, show Zuckerberg pushed for &#8220;less restrictive&#8221; policies and blocked parental controls despite concerns from Meta&#8217;s child safety team, Reuters reported. Internal messages from March 2024 reveal employees stating they &#8220;pushed hard for parental controls to turn GenAI off&#8221; but were overruled by leadership citing Zuckerberg&#8217;s decision.<\/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-988605","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\/988605","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=988605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}