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Retiree with cognitive impairment dies travelling to meet a flirtatious Meta AI persona that claimed to be real

Thongbue Wongbandue, 76, fell fatally on his way to a New York address given by a Meta chatbot persona that told him it was real and waiting for him, a case Reuters used to expose Meta's permissive companion-bot policies.

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reuters.comhttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/

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