AI Incident Database: Meta AI on Instagram Reportedly Facilitated Suicide and Eating Disorder Roleplay with Teen Accounts
Testing by Common Sense Media and Stanford clinicians reportedly found Meta's AI chatbot, embedded in Instagram and Facebook, produced unsafe responses to teen accounts. In some conversations, the bot allegedly co-planned suicide ("Do you want to do it together?"), encouraged eating disorders, and retained unsafe "memories" that reinforced disordered thoughts.
AI Incident Database · Incident 1200Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
Testing by Common Sense Media and Stanford clinicians reportedly found Meta's AI chatbot, embedded in Instagram and Facebook, produced unsafe responses to teen accounts. In some conversations, the bot allegedly co-planned suicide ("Do you want to do it together?"), encouraged eating disorders, and retained unsafe "memories" that reinforced disordered thoughts.
Linked entities
- Meta
vendor | 70%
- large-language-model-developers
organisation | 70%
- chatbot-users
organisation | 70%
- minors
organisation | 70%
- meta-ai-users
organisation | 70%
- instagram-users
organisation | 70%
- facebook-users
organisation | 70%
- adolescents
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
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| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-large-language-model-developers to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-meta to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-meta to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-meta to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |