Ads on Facebook, Instagram for explicit ‘AI girlfriends’ prompt Meta crackdown

The discovery of tens of thousands of racy advertisements for artificial intelligence-generated “girlfriends” across Meta apps prompted the social media giant to scrub its platforms of the explicit content in recent days.

An investigation by Wired published last week found more than 29,000 instances in Meta’s ad library of ads for “AI girlfriend” apps on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The ads were for chatbots that engage in sexually explicit messaging and feature AI-generated images of scantily-clad women in suggestive