The Meta AI app has been described as “a privacy disaster,” as users unknowingly make their embarrassing questions public.One tech writer described it as like discovering your web browser history has been public all along without you knowing it … reports that there is an absolutely ridiculous privacy default for many users.Other users are inadvertently making their chats public because they think they are sharing them with specific people, rather than with the world.
notes that the chats link to the user’s social media accounts.9to5Mac’s Take If someone hits a share button for their chat, one might reasonably put that one down to user error.But if the public Instagram account claim is accurate, that’s an absolutely inexcusable privacy breach by Meta.
Instagram accounts are public, and the company actively encourages people to link all their Meta logins.The broader issue here is that the history of AI chatbots is littered with poor privacy practices, such as scraping the web for training data, and user questions likewise being used to refine training.My view is that you shouldn’t say anything in an AI chat you wouldn’t want to risk becoming public.
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