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Talkie Community Guidelines

The self-published community guidelines for Talkie, an AI-companion chat app operated by the Chinese AI company MiniMax. The guidelines set out content-moderation rules including an explicit prohibition on sexualization of minors (real or fictional), harmful or dangerous acts involving minors, and content that promotes, glorifies, or provides instructions for suicide or self-harm, alongside a stated combination of human oversight and automated content-monitoring technology.

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Publisher

MiniMax (Talkie)

Published

24 Jan 2025

Added

2 weeks ago

DOI

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Key Findings

Prohibits any content that exploits or sexualizes minors, including fictional characters depicted as minors, in sexually explicit or otherwise inappropriate contexts
Prohibits content showing or encouraging minors to engage in dangerous activities, and content that targets minors for harassment, bullying, or humiliation
Prohibits content that promotes, glorifies, or provides instructions for suicide or self-harm
States that content moderation combines human oversight with automated content-monitoring technology, without publishing quantitative performance data for this system

Methodology Notes

A policy/terms-of-service-style document rather than a technical whitepaper; no evaluation methodology, benchmark, or quantitative safety-performance data is published alongside the stated rules.