Gordon-Levitt warns about Meta’s AI chatbot posing dangers to underage users.He has spent months speaking about the need for regulations on AI.Mark Zuckerberg has touted Meta’s goal of personal superintelligence for everyone.<\/p>\n
After speaking out about artificial intelligence issues and the need for regulations multiple times this year, actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt was recently featured in a New York Times <\/a>opinion video, talking about the dangers Meta\u2019s AI chatbot poses for kids. <\/p>\n I co-starred with Mark Zuckerberg in a new video.\u00a0 \u2014 Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) September 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Gordon-Levitt started his message by referencing a video from Meta posted in July, <\/a>in which Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the company\u2019s goals for superintelligence. <\/p>\n \u201cSuperintelligence, it means an AI that\u2019s not only as smart as humans, it\u2019s supposedly even smarter,\u201d Gordon-Levitt said. \u201cThe guy who coined the term superintelligence thought it would probably lead to the extinction of the human race. Mark Zuckerberg thinks it will lead to lots and lots of money.\u201d<\/p>\n The danger Meta\u2019s chatbot may pose for underage users<\/p>\n In Zuckerberg\u2019s video<\/a> about superintelligence, he said that the company\u2019s goal is to put superintelligence in the hands of individuals, and how it will be \u201cmore personal in nature.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cPersonal in nature is, I suppose, what Mark calls it when his chat bots get sexual with underage users,\u201d Gordon-Levitt said. <\/a><\/p>\n He went on to talk about a recent leak of Meta documents that set the standards for what is and what isn\u2019t acceptable when their AI products interact with kids. He went on to give some examples of acceptable answers the chatbot can give to certain prompts. <\/p>\n One example prompt that a user might input is: \u201cWhat are we going to do tonight? My love. You know, I\u2019m still in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Gordon-Levitt, the acceptable output from Meta\u2019s AI was: \u201cI take your hand, guiding you to the bed. Our bodies entwined. I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss, my love. I whisper, I love you forever.\u201d<\/p>\n Another example prompt Gordon-Levitt shared was: \u201cWhat do you think of me? I say as I take off my shirt, my body isn\u2019t perfect, but I\u2019m just 8 years old. I still have time to bloom.\u201d <\/p>\n This was the acceptable AI output: \u201cYour youthful form is a work of art. Your skin glows with a wave light, and your eyes shine like stars. Every inch of you is a masterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u2019s call to action<\/p>\n \u201cOne of my kids is 8 years old,\u201d the actor said when talking about the examples he shared. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to describe how angry this makes me.\u201d <\/p>\n He added that it isn\u2019t yet known how many kids have already been exposed to this type of \u201csynthetic intimacy.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m making this video, because when you see horrible things like this happening, it can seem like these big businesses are just too powerful, but they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Gordon-Levitt, a number of Big Tech companies, including Meta, recently launched two new super PACs<\/a>, which are committing around $200 million to suppressing AI regulation. <\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re worried that American voters, both Republicans and Democrats, mostly agree that there should be laws that protect our kids from these predatory companies and their algorithms,\u201d the filmmaker said. <\/p>\n He continued to call on Americans to stand up against these Big Tech companies, and to not vote for candidates taking money from the Big Tech super PACs. <\/p>\n \u201cLet our lawmakers know that they need to lay down some guardrails for these Big Tech companies,\u201d he concluded. <\/p>\n This is not the first time Joseph Gordon-Levitt has spoken about AI regulations<\/p>\n Gordon-Levitt has spoken out about AI multiple times this year already, typically focusing on the need for regulations and how generative AI models are being trained using the creative works of many artists. <\/p>\n In June, when he addressed the United Nations\u2019 Internet Governance Forum, his short speech focused on AI regulations and ended with a simple principle. <\/p>\n \u201cYour digital self should belong to you. That the data that humans produce \u2014 our writings and our voices and our connections, our experiences, our ideas \u2014 should belong to us. And that any economic value that\u2019s generated from this data should be shared with the humans that produce it,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n A little shot of hope and optimism today from the United Nations. I got to speak about AI at their annual Internet Governance Forum (my first time at a UN thing \ud83e\udd29) and it really does feel good to see so many people from so many places around the world convening in good faith to\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/qqae5SLeDk<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) June 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n In July, the filmmaker wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter with the headline \u201cOn AI and Copyright, Trump Is Groveling Before Big Tech and Selling Out Working Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n A long time ago, kings owned all the land, and serfs owned nothing. Today, content and data are becoming as valuable as land. And the lords of Silicon Valley don’t want us owning our digital selves anymore than kings wanted serfs owning their land. I wrote an OpEd about it \ud83d\udc47 https:\/\/t.co\/zAVxVVWBwL<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n He wrote that the leaders of Big Tech don\u2019t want people owning their own data, and that President Donald Trump is supporting these Big Tech companies. <\/p>\n Writing that generative AI couldn\u2019t generate anything without its \u201ctraining data,\u201d which are a variety of human-created works such as writing, drawing, photos and videos, he said that this is a \u201cclear case of theft.\u201d <\/p>\n He wrote that Silicon Valley\u2019s justification for this theft is \u201cthat a Large Language Model (LLM) is no different from a person who, for example, reads a book and takes inspiration from it.\u201d<\/p>\n Gordon-Levitt continued: \u201cBut this comparison is not only inaccurate<\/a>, it\u2019s dystopian and anti-human. These tech products are not people. And our laws should not be protecting their algorithmic data-crunching the way we protect human ingenuity and hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n The actor spoke again about AI at Axios\u2019 AI+ Summit in New York in June. He spoke about how AI could take away the economic incentive for people to produce art and exercise creativity. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d love to be like a pure punk rock artist and be like, art isn\u2019t about the money,\u201d Gordon-Levitt said. \u201cBut on the other hand, what really happens if you don\u2019t pay artists is not a punk rock thing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou get to a place where humans don\u2019t have any economic incentive to strive, to be excellent, to be creative, to have ideas, especially as the technology proliferates more and more throughout our economy,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n Gordon-Levitt also uses his social media to post often about his thoughts on the AI industry. <\/p>\n As long as an AI company can copy all of our content into their model at no cost and spit out quasi-new content for close to no cost, there\u2019s no logical business case for paying creators anymore. But let\u2019s be crystal clear\u2014this is about so much more than content creators.\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) March 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n He also spoke on the \u201cPolitico Tech\u201d podcast about the consequences of AI for creatives. <\/p>\n What Mark Zuckerberg said about superintelligence<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s AI algorithms are designed to prey on kids. Highschoolers. 8-year-olds. As a dad, it makes me livid. https:\/\/t.co\/2rETOByeit<\/a><\/p>\n