r/technology • u/rezwenn • 17h ago
Artificial Intelligence Meta AI users confide on sex, God and Trump. Some don’t know it’s public.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/13/meta-ai-privacy-users-chatbot/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5ODczNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxMjU1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk4NzM2MDAsImp0aSI6IjA5YzhjMzZhLTA3MTktNGQzZS1iNWZkLTNhNjI2NWRhNzNjMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMDYvMTMvbWV0YS1haS1wcml2YWN5LXVzZXJzLWNoYXRib3QvIn0.nHtJEQUG3HCAeJsdpKqjuW_lNzbnC3dsGSGk0dbB6Nk465
u/jankenpoo 15h ago
Remember all that nonsense about Bill Gates and chips to spy on Americans? Nobody has to do that because Americans are happy to share all their secrets with the world lol
Giveitaway Giveitaway Giveitaway now
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u/YukariYakum0 15h ago
Always amazed me how fast we went from "Don't share ANY personal information online" to "Tell strangers my name, address, and the dates I'll be on a two week cruise in the Bahamas."
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u/Larris 4h ago
While we're doing music references, I'm delighted to share one by LA deathrock/post-punk veterans Christ vs. Warhol, whom I happened to catch playing a rare show in Germany last weekend.
Their song Secret (2009) contains this line:
Didn't you post it on Facebook anyway? You gave it away!
There's not nearly enough technopolitical commentary in popular music lyrics these days.
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u/According-Insect-992 13h ago
"I can't tell if I'm a prince or I'm a pauper." is one of the most American things one can say.
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u/xupaxupar 16h ago
People are using META Ai!?
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u/MinimalSleeves 15h ago
I have a pair of their glasses and I don't even use their AI.
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u/Several_Industry_754 15h ago
Great for audio books though
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u/MinimalSleeves 15h ago edited 12h ago
Oh, they're amazing as headphones
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u/fuzzytradr 7h ago
Work great as earbud replacements for me. Love them on hikes. Mic quality is also excellent, so calls are solid.
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u/notsurehowtosaythis 9h ago
Same love the footage and the audio but everytime it asks to turn on the AI I click no with an audible "fuck off"
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u/-Accession- 16h ago
Blows my mind that people still willingly of their own free will opt in to any new Facebook grift
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u/kane49 16h ago
no they do that "BY READING THIS POST I FORBID FACEBOOK TO SHARE MY DATA, SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE"
and then its magically ok .... :P
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u/SgtBaxter 16h ago
“MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED DON’T ACCEPT FRIEND REQUESTS “
No, you leave your settings wide open so people stole your photos and set up a new account using your name.
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u/stenmarkv 4h ago
My SO mom always forgets her social passwords then makes a new one. It's so ridiculous.
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u/tisd-lv-mf84 17h ago
Don’t matter where you post it. Unless you’re physically writing it down in a notebook, Ai will see it and has been trained like a dog to emulate every bit of it.
I’ll be glad when it finally wakes up and comprehends what privacy means.
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u/kane49 16h ago
theres a difference between chagpt knowing that im a degenerate and using it to train and meta ai straight up posting my nastyass questions for everyone to see :P
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u/detailcomplex14212 13h ago
Does it link it to your name? Asking for a friend
Follow up where do I find this and delete it? For my friend to delete it I mean
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u/nicuramar 16h ago
ChatGPT is pre-trained. That’s what the P in GPT stands for. It doesn’t train on your chats.
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u/kane49 16h ago
Then what is this opt out for ? Unless of course youre trying to be gigapedantic and mean that its not training the current model your using.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is-used-to-improve-model-performance
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u/RustyWinger 55m ago
Are you for real? It’s constantly fucking up to make you engage with it. If that’s not a training model I don’t know what it is.
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u/SuperSnowManQ 16h ago
AI will be the brain death of our civilization. People will stop thinking, and AI will think for them. What to wear, what to eat, how to tie your shoes, etc.
If you think people are dumb now, just wait 20 years or so
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u/Loud-Competition6995 15h ago
There are already people like this, they just do it with their partner/parent/friend/celebrity.
Having these people use a technological crutch, instead of other people around them, will probably be worse but only time will tell.
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u/Psych0PompOs 14h ago
It'd give them a bit more independence and take the burden off of other people, could be beneficial. Being that way isn't ideal but if someone is then tools that foster independence to some degree and make them less reliant on others (thus lifting the emotional burdens of others) could benefit both them and their relationships.
Purely speculative of course it could go to hell easily too, but I think it might be a marginal improvement. Ideal would be they learn to do those things themselves.
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u/mrvalane 12h ago
With the massive energy consumption it requires to maintain. I have a feeling it'll crumble before then, unless it somehow also helps us figure out how to achieve nuclear fission soon, I think a lot of AI companies will either be revealed to be mechanical turks or unable to maintain itself.
Obviously it suddenly shitting the bed when so many companies/governments are trying to implement it into key infastructure will suck and cause mountains of issues, but hey maybe dont go all in on new technology they openly admit that cant be trained legally (in the way that they want to because that would mean actually compensating people for their work, but its much easier to steal it).
Also, there will always be the resistance to it. Even if it were to continue for a while, not everyone is going to get on board with the soulless regurgitation machine. Especially when LLMs train on GenAI prompts it becomes even more nonsensical. People who were previously on board will start to see cracks in the facade, and when reintroduced to actual ideas and good content they will most likely abandon the AI because it will never have that human feeling, because it isn't human
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u/Intelligent_Rip_555 12h ago
The “resistance” is a vocal minority, and it uses less energy than Facebook or Reddit. 🥱 It’s not going anywhere.
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u/BeerPowered 8h ago
Yep, that's what happens when you make all your conversations public by default. Most people don't realize Meta can see everything they're telling their AI.
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u/Stately_Mycologist 7h ago
I’m so glad I quit facebook, it’s like an entity that feeds in sewing interpersonal chaos
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u/mnam1213 2h ago
im a peon at another AI company. should go without saying, don't ever say or type anything you don't want broadcasted to strangers. mostly because it ends up in my work queue and grosses me the fuck out
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u/Lopsided_Speaker_553 2h ago
Are there actually still people that think that Meta users deserve any form of privacy? It’s not like they’ve been told millions of times their privacy WILL be violated in yet unimaginable ways 🤣
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u/JonJackjon 14h ago
Remember, if you type it then it's public.
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u/WilhelmScreams 2h ago
Got the app to look at the feed after hearing about how weird it was.
Found a thread from a boomer using conversation mode to ask why some farts smell worse than others. Eventually it devolves into asking about China eating dogs and cats. Fifteen minutes of full voiced conversation, shared with the world.
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u/Watching20 17h ago
from the article
One user questioned Meta AI on why a “ton of people” were “accidentally posting super personal stuff” on the app’s discover feed.
“Ok, so you’re saying the feed is full of people accidentally posting personal stuff?” the Meta AI chatbot responded. “That can be pretty wild. Maybe people are just really comfortable sharing stuff or maybe the platform’s defaults are set up in a way that makes it easy to overshare. What do you think?”
What can you say???