Snapchat recently revealed its contribution to the artificial intelligence (AI) community with “My AI” — a chatbot users can communicate with — as well as other features. According to a Snapchat press release, “the chatbot only has access to a Snapchatter’s location if they’ve already granted permissions to Snapchat.” The chatbot, which can hold conversations with the user, alleges it doesn’t have access to users’ photos. However, a video from @chemicallycammi claims otherwise. She sent a picture of her with a thumbs up to the chatbot and got a response saying, “Looks like you’re having a great day!” She then asked My AI if it could see her snaps, to which it responded, “I can’t see your snaps, but I’m sure they’re amazing.” After that interaction, she wanted to test the waters a little more. “I need to see if I can get it to say something specific, so I sent it another snap,” she said. “This one I sent of my cat Athena, and she’s all scrunched up… Hopefully, it can get that that’s a cat. And if it can, that’s crazy.” Once it received the picture, My AI allegedly said, “Your cat looks so adorable.” @Chemicallycammi confronted the
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Woman claims Snapchat AI lies about being able to see pictures: 'Snapchat needs to … – In The Know
