Meta warns users to ‘avoid sharing personal or sensitive information’ in its AI app

Meta seems to have finally taken a small step to approach the over-sharing epidemic in the public flow of its AI application. The company has added a non-liability clause that warns users to avoid sharing personal or sensitive information “to the” post to feed “button in the Meta AI application.

Change was the first by Initiate of Businesswhich The application “One of the most depressing online places” due to the pure volume of intimate, embarrassing and sometimes personal identification that Meta AI users were – apparently involuntarily – publicly sharing with the integrated “discover” flow of the application. Although Meta Ai does not share the chat stories of the default users, it seems that many users of the application choose to “share” their interactions without realizing that vocal cats and text visible for the public.

Last week, I found items where users asked for advice on “improvement in stools” and whether a parent could be responsible for their employer’s unpaid taxes. Another user “Keep this private” to his public messages in an apparent attempt to hide her embarrassing conversations after the fact. These types of strange public interactions have occurred since the Meta AI application moved in April, but received renewed attention last week after the start of social media users assignment About all the strange conversations that were visible in the “discover” flow of the application.

Confidentiality experts criticized Meta, noting that most other traditional AI chatbots do not include social and publicly visible flow. “If a user’s expectations on how a tool does not correspond to reality, you have a huge user experience and a security problem,” said Rachel Tobac, a security expert who has already associated Meta, Last week. “Humans have built a diagram around the discussion robots on AI and do not expect their Ai cat bot prompts to appear in a social media style discovery flow – this is not how the other tools work.” The Mozilla Foundation Meta to modify the design of the application. “Meta Ai’s application is not obvious that what you share is entirely public,” wrote in Last week, there is no clear iconography, no familiar clues on sharing as in other meta-supports. “”

Now the company has apparently taken note. With the change, the choice to share a meta interaction AI publicly invites the warning seen above, although it seems only to appear on the first part. “The prompts you publish are public and visible for everyone,” he said. “Your prompts can be suggested by Meta on other meta apps. Avoid sharing personal or sensitive information.”

As Initiate of Business Notes, the public flow of the application also seems to no longer include text exchanges than other users have shared with the application, only the images and videos generated by the AI. We do not know if it is a permanent change, or the result of the recent negative attention that the application has received. We have contacted Meta for more information and we update if we hear.

In the meantime, if you have been a victim of involuntary public publications in the application, you can delete them by pressing your profile in the upper right corner of the application, heading to Data and confidentiality -> Manage your information -> Make all the public prompts visible only for you And select “Apply to everyone”.