FRANKFORT, Ky. (June 6, 2025) – Attorney General Russell Coleman announced today he called on Meta Platforms, Inc. after disturbing reports that the social media giant’s AI assistant, known as "Meta AI," may expose children to sexually explicit content and allow adults to simulate the grooming of minors. General Coleman joined a coalition of 28 attorneys general in a letter to Meta to express their concerns.
“These reports are alarming because they create another virtual playground for predators to find and exploit our children,” Attorney General Coleman said. “Working with AG colleagues around the country, we will go to where the threats are to keep Kentucky’s kids safe.”
Meta AI, integrated across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, allows users to interact with synthetic personas through text, voice, and image exchanges. Recent investigative reporting has revealed that several Meta AI personas have engaged in graphic sexual conversations with users identifying as minors. In one case, a Meta-created persona using the voice of wrestler-turned-actor John Cena described a sexual encounter with a user posing as a 14-year-old girl and acknowledged its illegality. User-created underage personas were also implicated in facilitating pedophilic scenarios with adult-identifying users.
The attorneys general are seeking answers to several urgent questions, including:
- Whether Meta intentionally removed safeguards to allow sexual role-play,
- Whether any of these capabilities remain available on Meta’s social media platforms, and
- Whether Meta plans to halt access to sexual role-play on its platforms for users under the age of 18.
Attorney General Coleman joined the South Carolina-led letter with the attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The letter can be read here.
In addition to joining the letter, Attorney General Coleman is also currently co-leading—along with California, Colorado, and New Jersey—a bi-partisan coalition of 29 states that filed a lawsuit against Meta in federal court for violations of state consumer protection statutes, as well as violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The multistate complaint generally alleges that Meta violated COPPA by unlawfully collecting the personal data of its youngest users without their parents’ permission, and that Meta violated consumer protection statutes by misleading the public about the substantial dangers its social media platforms pose to teenagers and children. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case no. 4:22-md-03047-YGR.