The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
It sounds like the start of a horror film from the 21st century: your browsing history has been public all the time and you had no idea. That is actually how it feels at the new Stand-Alone Meta AI app, where parts of people publish their apparently private conversations with the chatbot.
When you ask the AI a question, you have the option to press a stock button, which you then lead to a screen that shows a preview of the message that you can then publish. But some users seem blissfully unconscious that they publicly share these text conversations, audio clips and images with the world.
When I woke up this morning, I did not expect that I had asked an audio recording of a man in a southern accent asking: “Hey, meta, why do some farts smell more than others?”
Fading -related questions are the least of Meta’s problems. On the Meta AI app I have people to ask for help with tax evasion, if their family members were arrested for their proximity of white borders, or how they can write a character reference letter for an employee who is confronted with legal problems, with the first and last name of that person. Others, such as security expert Rachel Tobac, Examples found From the home addresses of people and sensitive court details, including private information.
When he was reached by WAN, a meta spokesperson did not comment on the record.
Whether you admit to commit a crime or have a weird result, this is a privacy nightmare. Meta does not give users what their privacy settings are as they post, or what they even post on. So if you log in to Meta AI with Instagram and your Instagram account is public, then your searches about how you can meet ‘Big Booty Women’.
Much of this could have been avoided if Meta did not send an app with the idea of Bonkers that people would like to see each other’s conversations with Meta Ai, or if someone at Meta could foresee that this kind of function would be problematic. There is a reason why Google never tried to change his search engine into a social media feed – or why AOLs Publication of pseudonymized searches of users In 2006 went so badly. It is a recipe for a disaster.
According to AppFigures, an app intelligence company, the Meta AI app has only been downloaded 6.5 million times since it debuted on April 29.
That is perhaps impressive for an indie app, but we are not talking about a first developer who makes a niche game. This is one of the world’s richest companies that share an app with technology in which the billions of dollars have invested.
As every second passes, these seemingly imperative studies into the Meta AI app inch closer to a viral mess. Within a few hours, more and more messages have appeared on the app that indicate clear trolls, such as someone who shares his CV and asks for a cyber security course, or an account with a Pepe the Frog Avatar asking how to make a water bottle.
If Meta wanted to ensure that people actually use the Meta AI app, then public shame is certainly a way to get attention.
