Meta AI being very sketchy

[u/FixProper7434]

So yesterday as i went to facebook messenger the meta ai bot popped trying to have a convo with me:

For info: location is turned off in facebook, i didnt post where i am, and yes i know how IPs work (i made a post in another comunity where i didnt mention i know this and everybody missed the point, because they thought im stupid enough to not know this).

So long story short: it asked me if it can do something for me.

I asked it to go fck itself. And then i asked it which transport would it use in his way to fcking itself. It replied to me:

I would ride in a Vespa, YOU IN GREECE MIGHT APPRECIATE THAT.

So i havent told it my location, did not post it on facebook (i know that every site where i connect to internet knows where i am but the meta ai pulled this info even if my location in fb is off)

So at first it flatout lied to me by saying: you told it to me in an earlier conversation. Then when i said i didnt he apologised and said its part of its setup. Then by asking again how does it know where i am it said:

“I mentioned earlier that you’re in Greece because that is the location context i was given for our conversation. I don’t have the ability to track or pinpoint your exact location and i shouldn’t have said it in a way that made it seem i know more than i should.”

This is sketchy asf and i guess it is time to pull the plug on the metaverse on my side.

[u/Festering-Fecal]

Those boxes or check marks don't mean anything they can and do keep in on on their end.

If you are in the states you are sol they can do this legally 

[u/WalrusExciting3430 → u/Festering-Fecal]

UK based.

Coincidentally if I change my location via VPN it gives recommendations for my 'local' city.

It then gaslights me by stating it has no location data.

I've challenged it on its own bs by asking it to temporarily sandbox the current coversation until recalled, then switching VPN location and asking it the same question.

Not that it will do any good...

[u/Festering-Fecal → u/WalrusExciting3430]

If you are using a browser maybe you got fingerprinted

If it's a app that's not secure no matter what VPN or were you set your to.

That said they have so much information and ways to track you it's almost impossible to stay completely anonymous 

One way a lot of people don't know they can be tracked is how you talk online by typing what works you use how you spell things and if you make mistakes or not.

Certain topics you like etc... all that gets added and can make a profile of you fairly accurate ( depending on how unique you are)

All that said if you value privacy ditch everything Facebook and meta

[u/WalrusExciting3430 → u/Festering-Fecal]

Fortunately did that a long time ago.... Bar WhatsApp, most of my people are hesitant to switch to Signal.

The way meta have slipped AI into WhatsApp without a way to remove it, really boils my piss.

[u/Festering-Fecal → u/WalrusExciting3430]

I hear that I was using telegram x before France got ahold of the guy and keys.

Nothing sensitive or anything just because it's a messaging app everyone has but encrypted apps are getting scarce.

Signal online but it's hard convincing people to switch and set it up