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malwarebytesblog_feedConversations that people are having with the Meta AI app are being exposed publicly, often without the users realizing it, revealing a variety of medical, legal, and private matters. The standalone app and the company’s integrations with artificial intelligence (AI) across its platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—are now facing significant scrutiny for such privacy lapses.
The past two years have seen an explosion in generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and more. But with new players entering the market almost daily, not all of them deserve the same level of trust.
With 1 billion active monthly users, Meta AI is one of the contenders aiming for ChatGPT’s crown. To monetize this success, Meta’s CEO Zuckerberg said “there will be opportunities to either insert paid recommendations” or offer “a subscription service so that people can pay to use more compute.”
Similar to ChatGPT, Meta AI can generate text, answer questions, and help users plan, brainstorm, and strategize on various issues. But when using the Meta AI app, after submitting a question, users can also press a “share” button, which directs them to a screen showing a preview of the post, which users can then publish. But some users appear blissfully unaware that they are sharing these text conversations, audio clips, and images publicly with the world.
Other users can access “shared” conversations by using the apps Discover feed.
With only one glance at that feed, I found this example of a conversation the user might not have wanted to be publicly visible. A teacher shared an email thread regarding their upcoming arbitration of a job termination that felt unjust. The Meta AI app responded:
“Hello {name}, it’s great to hear from you again. I can sense the emotional weight of revisiting this experience, and I appreciate your trust in sharing it with me. It sounds like a really tough situation, and I’m here to listen and support you as you process it. No rush, take your time to gather your thoughts, and we can continue the conversation whenever you’re ready. How’s the preparation for the arbitration going so far?”
The emphasis is by me. If the AI realizes how much trust it takes to share that story with anyone, even if it’s only a bot, then how must it feel when the user finds out the whole world can find and read it. I didn’t even have to log in to find this conversation.
TechCrunch reported about people asking for help with tax evasion and other personal matters, calling Meta AI a “privacy disaster.” Many sources found threads about medical topics, and other conversations about delicate and private issues.
What people may not realize is that if they use the integrated versions on social media, they are logged in and their conversation can be tied to their social media profile.
Your best option would be not to use Meta AI at all. If you do, make sure you are not logged in and double check that fact if you are logged in on any of the Meta platforms on the same device. And never, ever use the Share button unless you mean to.
Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts wrote in an emailed statement to WIRED that users’ chats with Meta AI are private unless users go through a multistep process to share them on the Discover feed.
When asked about these mishaps, the Meta AI chatbot said:
“Some users might unintentionally share sensitive info due to misunderstandings about platform defaults or changes in settings over time.”
However, Meta has not provided detailed, easily accessible in-app guidance at the moment of sharing, which contributes to user confusion. I decided to ask Meta AI.
Question: What do I need to do so you don’t share our conversation with the rest of the world? And is it true that the information I share with you might be used for advertising? Or, at least for “sponsored” recommendations?
Answer: Your conversations with me are used to improve the model and might be reviewed by our team to ensure quality. We may also use your conversations to train our models to be more helpful and accurate. However, we take steps to protect your privacy.
If you have concerns about how your data is used, you can visit Meta’s Privacy Center to learn more about how Meta handles data: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/center/.
Did that actually answer my question? No.
So, here are the steps you may want to take if you decide to engage with Meta AI for all the different platforms where you may encounter it.
Note: Conversations with Meta AI on WhatsApp are not protected by end-to-end encryption and may be used for AI training
To limit Meta’s use of your data for AI training:
Meta has introduced commands to delete information shared in any chat with an AI:
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Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular pirate sites, have been utilized by rightsholders in France for years. The aim is to deter piracy by making sites more difficult to find, but these measures are only partially effective.
More recently, site blocking requests have targeted other intermediaries. DNS providers including Google and Cloudflare, plus several of the largest VPN providers, were all ordered to make pirate websites unavailable through their services.
While several of these orders are still under appeal, rightsholders and lawmakers are pressing ahead. They believe that more can and should be done to tackle online piracy; sports streaming piracy in particular.
A new bill amending Article L. 333-10 of the French Sports Code passed the Senate this week. The ‘Lafon’ bill allows rightsholders to use a fully automated system to block piracy targets, without having to go through the French telecoms regulator Arcom for updates to the blacklisted sites.
Targeted intermediaries are required to implement these blockades ‘without delay’. That speeds up the blocking process, which is particularly important when dealing with constantly updating livestreams of pirated sports. Similar blocking regimes are already active in Italy, Spain, and the UK.
The proposed bill doesn’t specify any concrete blocking methods, but by allowing judges to target server IP addresses it logically paves the way for IP-address blocking.
Speaking with the French news publication L’Informé, Xavier Spender of the Association for the Protection of Sports Programs (APPS), which represents beIN Sports, Canal+, Eurosport and others, says the aim is to reinforce existing blocking measures.
“We want to bring ourselves up to the level of the English, Spanish, and Italians, by implementing IP blocking adapted to the French context. Our goal is to block servers at the head of the network, that is, at the highest possible level of the pirate architecture.”
Other stakeholders also view automated and real-time IP address blocking as a must to tackle the country’s pirate streaming epidemic. An estimated 37% of Ligue 1 viewers currently watch football matches illegally.
“The adoption of this new system is vital to effectively protect our competitions and our economic model, especially as the LFP is about to launch its own channel,” the Professional Football League (LFP) commented.
Brice Daumin, general manager of Ligue 1 broadcaster DAZN notes that “Arcom doesn’t work weekends,” so something had to be done to more effectively tackle the problem. “In England, we can block 10,000 links in two days; in Italy, it’s 18,000. And with Arcom, it’s 5,000 per year.”
While the bill has yet to pass into law, stakeholders are already preparing a complementary agreement. According to a report from L’Informé’s Marc Rees, sports rightsholder group APPS has reached a private agreement in principle with Internet providers Orange, SFR, Bouygues Télécom, and Free.
Reportedly in the works since 2023, the agreement covers the finer details of a new blocking system, including the technical implementation and who will pay for the costs.
Thus far, specific details of the blocking system, including any plans for independent oversight, remain unclear. However, a source said that overblocking risks are being taken into account, adding that rightsholders remain responsible for their mistakes.
Calls for extended blocking powers arrive at a sensitive time, as recent expansions in Spain and Italy have resulted in several overblocking incidents.
However, according to APPS general delegate Xavier Spender, there is little to worry about as “everything will be put in place to ensure that there is no risk of over-blocking.”
Time will tell whether France will be able to prevent collateral damage, but it’s clear that APPS and its rightsholders are eager to implement broader blocking powers to deal with the piracy ‘mafia’.
“Today, we are facing mafia groups at the head of a piracy economy, with a model that resembles drug trafficking. To deal in particular with illicit IPTV offers, sold on every street corner, we need to adapt to enable real-time blocking,” Spender says.
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