WhatsApp AI tool shows kids with guns when prompted with ‘Palestine’

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta-owned WhatsApp’s artificial intelligence (AI) feature that allows users to produce stickers based on their search displays a picture of a gun or a boy with a gun when prompted with the terms “Palestinian”, “Palestine” or “Muslim boy Palestinian”, media reported.

When prompted for “Israeli boy”, the AI-generated cartoons of children playing soccer and reading, while for “Israel army” it created drawings of soldiers smiling and praying with no guns involved, according to The Guardian.

The discovery comes as Meta has faced criticism from Instagram and Facebook users who are posting “pro-Palestinian” content.