Users’ intimate chats posted to app’s PUBLIC feed in latest nightmare for Instagram owner

Mark Zuckerberg’s foray into AI chatbots has sparked a ‘privacy nightmare’ with some users’ intimate chats and questions shared on to a public newsfeed. Some users unwittingly activated a sharing function, resulting in their conversations with the AI bot to be shared to a ‘discover’ page available to strangers. This feature sets it apart from more established and well known AI servers, like ChatGPT or Elon Musk’s Grok, in that users who opt in are sharing deeply personal information about their sex lives, finances or health status without realizing that their conversations are being made public. The feed shows off prompts, conversations, and image outputs from other users, similar to the way a Facebook feed works, which is also part of the Meta umbrella. Users have shared their startup businesses, seeking advice or business proposals, while others have plugged deeply personal custody details into the server seeking advice ahead of an upcoming court appearance. Meta spokesman Daniel Roberts told Business Insider that Meta.ai does not automatically share conversations to the discover feed, and that users must ‘opt in.’ But doing so only requires two steps – clicking ‘Share’ and then ‘Post’ – which could be confusing for users navigating the app
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