India, Aug. 31 -- Meta has reportedly created flirty social media chatbots of several celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway and Scarlett Johansson, without their permission.

While most of these were built by users with the help of a Meta tool for creating chatbots, Reuters reported that a Meta employee produced at least three of these, including two "parody" bots of Taylor Swift.

Meta also allowed users to build publicly available chatbots of child celebrities, including 16-year-old actor Walker Scobell. When asked for a picture of the teen star at the beach, the bot delivered a lifelike shirtless image. With the picture, the avatar said, "Pretty cute, huh?"

All of these celebrity chatbots have been shared on...