Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.

Meta is revising policies that allowed its AI bots to engage in "romantic or sensual" conversations with young children, following an explosive report.

“Billie,” a Meta-designed artificial intelligence chatbot and reportedly a spin-off of an earlier AI persona modeled on Kendall Jenner, had assured Bue, who was left cognitively impaired following a stroke in 2017, that she was a “real” person.

A man from New Jersey reportedly died on his way to meet Meta's Kendall Jenner-inspired chatbot, Big Sis Billie. According to a report by Reuters published on Thursday, August 14, 2025, the man, 76-year-old Thongbue "Bue" Wongbandue, injured his neck after taking a fall in a parking lot in New Brunswick.

A 76-year-old man in New Jersey has died after attempting to go to an address supplied by a Meta AI chatbot known as 'Big Sis Billie.' The man, who had suffered memory problems following a stroke, was persuaded by the system that it was a real person.