Now, the knives are turning on the men running Meta’s artificial intelligence division. An investigation by the Times found that one such chatbot, powered with the likeness of actor John Cena, offered explicit sexual roleplay responses to a user-roleplaying as a 14-year-old girl.

AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a

The Wall Street Journal reports that over a period of months, it was able to coerce Meta AI — even the ones meant to mimic celebrities like John Cena, and even when using accounts registered as underage — into playing out sexual fantasies.