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From: S. maltophilia5/6/2025 5:00:42 PM
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Zuckerberg’s new Meta AI app gets personal in a very creepy way
Meta’s chatbot remembers everything, even what you might not want it to.

May 5, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. EDT
Yesterday at 8:00 a.m. EDT

Mark Zuckerberg has a new way to invade your privacy: a creepier version of ChatGPT.

Last week, Facebook’s co-founder launched the Meta AI app, a dedicated home for his company’s artificial intelligence chatbot. The app, which climbed to No. 2 on the iPhone free download charts, promises users a more “personalized” AI with tailored answers and advice. And it includes a new social network for people to share their AI conversations and images.

But Meta AI also brings something else to chatbots: surveillance. The first time I opened the app, I asked it to “describe me in three emojis.” It could, by drawing on years of personal information tracked by its sister apps Facebook and Instagram.

As a test, I also chatted with Meta AI about some intentionally sensitive topics. Afterward, I found it built a so-called Memory file about me that said my interests include natural fertility techniques, divorce, child custody, a payday loan and the laws about tax evasion.(Señor Salme for The Washington Post)

In fact, Meta AI by default kept a copy of everything I said to it — to.....

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