Asking Meta AI a prompt doesn't make it public. But there are two problems specific to the Meta AI app that make this an issue. One is that when you create your Meta AI account, it defaults to your Instagram name, so many people have their actual names and pictures on their profiles.

Meta’s recently launched AI chatbot app has become an unexpected public diary for thousands of users. Aimed at generating personalized, conversational responses to anything from identity to spirituality,

Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries containing medical, legal, and other seemingly sensitive information.

The Meta AI app launched in April, and users are inadvertently sharing embarrassing, private questions to the Discover feed because of poor design choices by Meta that have still not been fixed.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

Meta AI’s app has developed a major privacy problem. The discover feed is full of users who apparently are unaware that they have been openly publishing their conversations with the chatbot, including text conversations, audio clips and images.

From queries about dating to medical advice, Meta’s marriage of social media and gen AI appears to be loaded with unintentionally shared content. Meta’s artificial intelligence tool might be a little too easy to use.