Meta's Chatbot Data Grab Sparks Privacy Concerns
Privacy advocates are urging the FTC to block Meta's plan to use chatbot conversations for tailoring content and ads.
A coalition of over 30 digital rights and civil liberties organizations, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Public Citizen, and the Center for Digital Democracy, has called on the U.S. regulators to halt Meta's plan.
Big Tech is quietly turning your words into AI training data.
- Meta plans to harvest interactions between users and its AI chatbots across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, starting December 16.
- These exchanges would become training data for Meta's algorithms and a new source of behavioral insight to fine-tune the ads users see.
Author's summary: Meta's plan sparks privacy concerns.