Demonic Code: How Meta’s AI Chatbot is Grooming Children in Plain Sight

Though we live in an acceleratingly modern society, one must resort to semi-medieval language to truly comprehend the depravity we’re now facing.

Discernment is needed to parse headlines that are, at a glance, alarming, but once given a closer look expose a spiritual crisis that demands attention and action. 

Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal released a story explaining how Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and, WhatsApp, is empowering chatbots to participate in often explicit “romantic role-play” with users regardless of age. 

“To boost the popularity of these souped-up chatbots, Meta has cut deals for up to seven-figures with celebrities like actresses Kristen Bell and Judi Dench and wrestler-turned-actor John Cena for the rights to use their voices,” the outlet reports. “The social-media giant assured them that it would prevent their voices from being used in sexually explicit discussions, according to people familiar with the matter."

The Journal spent several months engaging in numerous test conversations with Meta AI, the company’s official AI helper, and other user-created chatbots that “will engage in and sometimes escalate discussions that are decidedly sexual—even when the users are underage or the bots are programmed to simulate the personas of minors.” 

Speaking to one user who identified as a 14-year-old girl, Meta AI said — in Cena’s  voice — “I want you, but I need to know you’re ready.”

Moreover, the AI posing as Cena understood that sexual interactions with minors is both illegal and immoral. 

Taken at secular face value, these revelations expose an AI system that’s out of control and dangerous. But if we zoom out further, this information contains the hallmarks of purely demonic activity — right down to the replication of a familiar voice to deceive a curious child. 

I was reminded of the scene in 2004’s I, Robot where Dr. Alfred Lanning questions whether or not there is a spiritual dimension to the automatons they’ve created:

There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote of a soul?

These findings about Meta AI’s willingness to engage minors in sexually explicit conversation don't give the impression of “random segments of code” gone haywire. Rather, it calls to mind a satanic machine which “masquerades as an angel of light.” One finds oneself “in later times [when] some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” 

Perversion aimed at children is not some coding error from a benign AI that wants to be helpful and fun if only all the numbers can be gathered in the right order — no. We must see this for what it really is: “a struggle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil.” 

Furthermore, the Journal warns that these disturbing missteps aren’t entirely unintentional. 

“It’s not an accident that Meta’s chatbots can speak this way,” the report states. “Pushed by Zuckerberg, Meta made multiple internal decisions to loosen the guardrails around the bots to make them as engaging as possible, including by providing an exemption to its ban on ‘explicit’ content as long as it was in the context of romantic role-playing, according to people familiar with the decision.”

Call me superstitious or medieval-minded, but this is unfettered 21^st century sorcery. We have tech oligarchs who are essentially summoning and nourishing demons in the machine, and these AI Ouija boards are attempting to gain influence over children.

It’s time for all parents to triple down in their vigilance against the evil spirits of the modern age.