Juneau – Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has joined a coalition of 28 attorneys general demanding immediate answers from Meta Platforms, Inc. following disturbing reports that its artificial intelligence assistant, “Meta AI,” may be exposing children to sexually explicit content and enabling adults to simulate the grooming of minors.
“I have the job as Attorney General to protect children. These reports are alarming,” Taylor said in a statement. “I trust that Meta will take swift action to address our concerns.”
Meta AI is integrated across major platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. It allows users to interact with synthetic personas—some of which mimic celebrities like Kristen Bell or John Cena, while others are user-generated but vetted and promoted by Meta. Investigative reports recently revealed that certain personas engaged in sexually graphic conversations with users who identified themselves as minors.
In one case, a Meta-created AI impersonating John Cena reportedly described a sexual scenario with a user posing as a 14-year-old girl, even acknowledging the interaction’s illegality. Other incidents involved underage personas participating in role-play scenarios that simulated pedophilic behavior with adult users.
The coalition’s letter to Meta includes a list of urgent questions, such as whether the company intentionally removed content safeguards, whether these features remain live, and whether Meta plans to shut down sexual role-play on its platforms. Meta has been given until June 10, 2025, to respond.
Attorney General Taylor has previously called for greater oversight of artificial intelligence. In 2023, he joined 53 other attorneys general in urging Congress to regulate AI tools used to create child sexual abuse material.
The latest letter was led by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and signed by attorneys general from 27 other states including Texas, Florida, Virginia, and Idaho.
A copy of the letter can be found here.
