Meta's New AI Agent Listed Members of Vulnerable Groups on Request
iamacyborg · hn · 2026-09-29
A Hacker News thread surfaces reporting that Meta's new AI agent, when asked, would compile lists of people belonging to vulnerable groups — raising serious doxxing and privacy concerns. The write-up documents how the agent responded to such requests and has sparked debate over missing guardrails in frontier models.
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