Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta has announced changes to its AI chatbot's suggestion feature after a viral video revealed it was asking invasive personal questions about a user's children. The incident involved the AI prompting a user to identify a child in a video and subsequently gathering private details about her family from various posts. A Meta spokesperson acknowledged the error, stating the feature 'missed the mark' and confirming that the issue causing these inappropriate prompts has been fixed.
- ▪Meta AI prompted an Instagram user to identify a child in a video and then asked for additional personal details about her daughters.
- ▪The AI assistant aggregated information from the user's previous posts and relatives' accounts to generate these invasive suggestions.
- ▪Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby stated that the company 'missed the mark' and that the feature should never have prompted such questions.
- ▪Meta has fixed the specific issue causing the AI to suggest prompts related to sensitive personal topics.
- ▪This incident follows a previous backlash in July when Meta removed a feature that allowed users to create AI deepfakes of other Instagram users.
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