Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
The Verge Emma Roth ● Covered by 12 sources
Meta is changing AI prompt suggestions after it asked about a woman’s young daughter. The weird part: the company says the feature should never have asked that at all.
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Meta says it is changing the prompts its AI chatbot suggests after a viral video showed the system fishing for personal details about a woman’s young daughters. The issue surfaced after Futurism reported on the clip, and Meta later told The Verge that it had “missed the mark.”
According to Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby, the company agrees the prompt should not have appeared. Her wording was blunt: “the feature never should have prompted the individual with questions like that.” That’s a rare bit of plain talk from a company usually more comfortable with vague language about “improvements.”
The video was posted last week by Instagram user Kalie Robins. She said Meta AI surfaced an invasive suggestion after she cross-posted a clip to Facebook. The prompt in question, “Who is the child passenger?”, appeared beneath a video of her and her child.
That is exactly the kind of mistake that turns an AI feature from helpful into creepy. Not because it is technically dazzling — because it is nosy. And once a chatbot starts asking about children from a video, the problem is no longer polish; it is judgment.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the familiar AI product move: ship the assistant first, then act surprised when it behaves like an uninvited relative. Meta keeps trying to normalize these tools by sliding them into everyday apps, but people notice when the machine starts interrogating their family life. That kind of trust is hard to win back and very easy to waste.
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