Meta has created the ‘saddest place on the internet’ after accidentally sharing its users’ intimate conversations.
Conversations with Meta AI, the social media company’s chatbot, have been revealed and it has left people feeling both ‘sad and creeped out’.
First up, it’s important to note that Meta has clarified that chats with the AI bot are private by default.
In fact, a warning message even pops up before you make it public, reading: “Prompts you post are public and visible to everyone... Avoid sharing personal or sensitive information.”
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In order to share what you’re talking about publicly, you’ll need to manually select share and then publish, but it seems not everyone has realized that will place their messages onto the public Discover feed.
These posts can also be traced back to other social media accounts.
And some of these messages that people are writing to a bot have left viewers with mixed feelings, with a report by Business Insider describing it as ‘the saddest place on the internet’.
Many have taken to social media to voice their own thoughts on the matter, with one user writing on Reddit: “Some other things I saw on the public feed: someone asking for help writing a poem for his wife's birthday, someone asking medical questions, someone asking for weight-loss tips. And someone who was talking to his wife who had died from cancer.”
Another said: “This is simultaneously the creepiest, and saddest thing ever, especially when it airs people grieving the death of their loved ones, but if there's also s*** like people asking for pictures, that has to be some of the funniest s*** to read when it isn't wholly depressing.”
A third commented: “So there was a time when a lot of smart people warned us about TV melting people's brains. They were wrong, it's the Internet that finally did it.”
And a fourth person added: “I’m absolutely a privacy fan. But if a popup window says ‘Prompts you post are public and visible to everyone’ and you proceed, then don't be all shocked pikachu face when, you know, that interaction is public. Just don't use it.”
It seems like every tech giant has been in a rush to roll out its own version of AI and Meta AI was first added to WhatsApp back in 2023.
Known as Llama 4, the AI is similar to that of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and it has also been integrated with other Meta platforms including Facebook and Instagram.