Meta’s AI App Under Fire for Privacy and Social Feed Flaws

Monday, May 5, 2025, 11:20 am

Meta’s newly launched AI app is drawing ire for its handling of user data and a cluttered social feed. With concerns that the app memorizes conversations to feed personalization (and perhaps a bit too much nosiness), critics wonder if this digital assistant is more prying than helpful.

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winbuzzer.com / Meta AI App Sparks Privacy Concerns as it Memorizes Chats For Personalized Responses

Meta's new AI app has raised privacy concerns by using Facebook/Instagram data and remembering chat details by default for training and potentially ads in the future. The post Meta AI App Sparks Privacy Concerns as it Memorizes Chats For Personalized Responses appeared first on WinBuzzer.

theverge.com / Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed

If you took Pinterest, mashed it together with everything annoying about Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts on top - that'd pretty much sum up the newly launched Meta AI site's social feed. So far, prompting AI chatbots - those are the questions or requests you make - has primarily been a…

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