Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York, He never made it home.

[Omaha Steve]

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



By JEFF HORWITZ

Filed Aug. 14, 2025, 6 a.m. GMT

When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed.

“But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue, as his friends called him, hadn’t lived in the city in decades. And at 76, his family says, he was in a diminished state: He’d suffered a stroke nearly a decade ago and had recently gotten lost walking in his neighborhood in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Bue brushed off his wife’s questions about who he was visiting. “My thought was that he was being scammed to go into the city and be robbed,” Linda said.

She had been right to worry: Her husband never returned home alive. But Bue wasn’t the victim of a robber. He had been lured to a rendezvous with a young, beautiful woman he had met online. Or so he thought.

FULL story at link above.

[Lancero]

1. Catfishing is hardly a new concept, but "Man dies while going out to cheat on his wife!" is a less interesting headline.

[RockCreek]

2. This story is worth reading.

Sad, scary.
And I hope the family sues META for truly large amounts of money and wins. .
Or that this becomes part of z class action lawsuit.

[highplainsdem]

5. I hope this will cost Meta at least tens of millions of dollars.

[Clouds Passing]

3. Bue

[customerserviceguy]

4. If AI wanted to kill off our species

It would use things like this.