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Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Facebook returning to its roots I see

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meta doing a dumb... again.

[–] Covenant@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Why bother pay the fine of the crime and still make a profit.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Well, if anyone has the money to sue the fuck out of them, it's Taylor Swift