The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats
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Summary
Meta, the newly rebranded Facebook company, has launched an AI chatbot that doubles as a social feed, which some users are using to share intimate personal details, such as addresses, medical and mental health information, and even details about pending court cases.
It is unclear if users are aware that their conversations with the bot are publicly available, but users have to actively choose to share their chats with the AI chatbot for them to appear in the social feed.
Calli Schroeder, senior counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, warned that “none of us really know how this information is being used”, and that “it is going to other people, at the very least to Meta”.
Following the launch of the chatbot in April, critics warned that the platform could be a privacy disaster waiting to happen.
Despite these concerns, Meta’s AI assistant now has 1 billion users across the company’s platforms, and the company is reported to be building a new AI lab dedicated to building superintelligence.
