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Incident 1101: Meta AI App Reportedly Publishes Personal Chats Without Users Fully Realizing

Description: Meta launched a stand-alone AI app with a "Discover" feed allowing users to share conversations with its chatbot. Multiple reports indicate that some users may have inadvertently published highly personal interactions, including audio recordings, medical questions, legal concerns, and intimate relationship disclosures. While Meta states that sharing is opt-in, the feature's design and labeling may have led to user confusion about what would be publicly visible.

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Alleged: Meta and Meta AI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Meta users.
Alleged implicated AI system: Meta AI

Incident Stats

Incident ID
1101
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2025-04-29
Editors
Daniel Atherton

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Incident OccurrenceMeta has a new stand-alone AI app. It lets you see what other people are asking. I'm confused.+1
Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed
Meta has a new stand-alone AI app. It lets you see what other people are asking. I'm confused.

Meta has a new stand-alone AI app. It lets you see what other people are asking. I'm confused.

businessinsider.com

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed

businessinsider.com

Meta AI users confide on sex, God and Trump. Some don’t know it’s public.

Meta AI users confide on sex, God and Trump. Some don’t know it’s public.

washingtonpost.com

Meta has a new stand-alone AI app. It lets you see what other people are asking. I'm confused.
businessinsider.com · 2025

It's 10 p.m., and I'm in bed on my phone, listening to an audio clip of a woman asking an AI chatbot for medical advice about her sick pet turtle. As someone who loves to lurk in other people's business, I'm in heaven. But how did we get he…

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed
businessinsider.com · 2025

Meta's stand-alone AI app launched in late April, and like many people, my first thought was, "Huh?" After trying it out a little, my next thought was, "Oh no." A few weeks later, after the initial surge of curious new users, my thought is …

Meta AI users confide on sex, God and Trump. Some don’t know it’s public.
washingtonpost.com · 2025

A man wants to know how to help his friend come out of the closet. An aunt struggles to find the right words to congratulate her niece on her graduation. And one guy wants to know how to ask a girl --- "in Asian" --- if she's interested in …

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