Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta is modifying its AI chatbot's suggestion feature after a viral video showed it generating invasive questions about a user's children. The company admitted the feature missed the mark and stated it has implemented fixes to prevent the AI from surfacing personal information.
Why it matters
This incident highlights growing privacy concerns regarding how AI assistants aggregate and surface personal data from social media history.
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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