Users of the Meta AI chatbot are massively sharing their intimate conversations with the artificial intelligence application without realizing it.
Users of the Meta AI chatbot are massively sharing their intimate conversations with the artificial intelligence application without realizing it.
The Washington Post drew attention to the problem, recalling that a few months ago Meta launched a separate app for its artificial intelligence-based chatbot to provide users with personalized answers to any questions.
But many users don’t take into account a certain nuance: unlike ChatGPT and many other artificial intelligence applications, Meta AI has a unique feature: a «public feed» where users can publish their personal conversations with Meta AI for public viewing.
Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts explained that chats with Meta AI are set to private by default, and users must click the «Share» or «Publish» buttons before they appear in the app’s public feed.
At the same time, the «Share» button does not directly tell users where their conversations with Meta AI will be published or whether other people will be able to see it, so it is likely that many users simply do not realize the consequences.
Thus, the app’s public feed featured many intimate conversations about relationships, sex life, faith in God, or financial difficulties, which users would hardly want to share publicly.
«We’ve seen many examples of people sending very, very personal information to AI chatbots or saying very intimate things,» said Callie Schroeder, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
She expressed the view that many people assume that there is some basic level of privacy, but in reality there is not.
The publication also reports that some questions asked to Meta AI in the public domain were of an inappropriate nature, such as regarding the creation of pornographic content using AI.
We previously wrote about a funny story, as the Meta AI chatbot got confused about US presidents. After Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Meta AI chatbot still claimed that Joe Biden was the president.
It is known that Meta plans to invest $60 billion in 2025 in AI development amid concerns about the Chinese startup DeepSeek.
