Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta is fixing Meta AI suggested prompts after a viral video showed the chatbot compiling invasive questions about a user's children from her Facebook posts.
Meta said it 'missed the mark' and has fixed the issue after Instagram user Kalie Robins showed Meta AI suggesting 'Who is the child passenger?' beneath a video with her child and then piecing together details about her daughters from her and relatives' posts. The assistant also surfaced photos of her children, including one the user claims she deleted years ago. Meta AI is embedded in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger; in July the company pulled an Instagram user-deepfake feature after backlash.
- Meta AI suggested 'Who is the child passenger?' prompt beneath a user's video
- Chatbot compiled children's ages and location details from user and relative posts
- Showed photos including one the user says was deleted years ago
- Meta says responses are based on information the user already has access to
- In July Meta pulled an Instagram AI deepfake feature after backlash
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Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the company "missed the mark," adding that "the feature never should have prompted the individual with questions like that."
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