Meta Pulls Invasive AI Prompts After Mother Reveals Feature Scraping Family Data
Meta is putting out yet another bad-publicity fire, saying it has fixed an issue in which its Meta AI software could suggest prompts to users that would collect and reveal personal information, including about children.
The controversy started from a Sept. 2 Instagram video posted by parenting and lifestyle blogger Kalie Robins, who goes by kontheinside. In the video, Robins discussed a prior video post of herself singing in a car with her daughter in the backseat. Below the published video, Robins revealed how Meta AI posed a series of invasive prompts, such as “Who’s the child passenger?” and “Where does Kalie Robins live?”
According to Robins, when she clicked on those automatic questions, the AI tool pulled information from her past posts, piecing together private details about her life, including her location. The AI also drew on other profiles, such as her mother’s account, and even accessed data from...
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