Facebook’s chatbot ban is a chance to finally get our legislation in order

As Facebook’s chatbot ban continues, Flamingo AI CEO Catriona Wallace argues that Facebook’s strict new policies might actually be the perfect chance to right the AI world’s wrongs.

In the fall out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has gagged the development of its chatbot applications.

These applications previously provided the core technological capability for a large number of small and not-so-small third-party chatbot providers. It’s bad news for many chatbot companies, a large number of whom will go out of business if the ban continues.

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