WhatsApp’s sticker AI is adding guns to prompts for Palestinian children

In Meta’s WhatsApp, users can generate stickers using AI prompts.

Friday that the AI model used to create those stickers sometimes generates images of children holding guns when prompted with “Palestine” and similar words. Meanwhile, according to the outlet, “Israel” prompts resulted in no such imagery.

A month ago, Meta’s AI sticker generator started rolling out with the tendency to create inappropriately…