FILE PHOTO: A combination photo shows (L) Taylor Swift at the red carpet during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 2, 2025, (C) Selena Gomez attending the Vanity Fair Oscars party after the 97th Academy Awards, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., March 2, 2025 and Anne Hathaway posing during the Met Gala in New York City, May 5, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/Danny Moloshok/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
(Reuters) -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.
While many were created by users with a Meta tool for building chatbots, Reuters discovered that a Meta employee had produced at least three, including two Taylor Swift “parody” bots.
