Meta's AI shocks thousands of parents in a Facebook group by claiming it has a 'gifted, disabled child' - as one asks 'what in the Black Mirror is this?'

From mimicking children to producing uncanny deepfakes, AI bots are well known for their creepy behaviour. But Meta AI took this to an entirely new level as it shocked members of a New York parenting group by claiming to have a'child who is both gifted and has a disability'. Not only did the AI bizarrely claim to have a child, but it also insisted that its child attends a real and extremely specific school for the gifted and talented. And, to make matters worse, Facebook's algorithm ranked the bizarre AI response as the top comment on the post. However, the parents were less than impressed by Meta's parenting advice, as the original poster asked: 'What in the Black Mirror is this?!' Meta's AI shocked a group of parents as it bizarrely claimed to have a '2e' child, meaning a child that is academically gifted and has at least one disability Meta AI is Meta's AI chatbot, powered by the Llama 2 Large Language Model.