At this point, we're probably all familiar with the trope of the dirty old uncle who confuses his Facebook feed for a porn site. Now, there's a new type of uncle surfing the net, and thanks to Meta, he's powered by AI.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

For now, it’s advisable, if you’re going to use the Meta AI app, to go to your settings (or your parents’ settings) and make all of your public prompts visible only to you. To do that, pull open the Meta AI app and: Tap your profile icon at the top right.