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Title: Mozilla Criticizes Meta's 'Invasive' Feed of Users' AI Prompts,
Demands Its Shutdown

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/08/1929...

In late April Meta introduced its Meta AI app, which included something
called a Discover feed. ("You can see the best prompts people are sharing, or
remix them to make them your own." But while Meta insisted "you're in
control: nothing is shared to your feed unless you choose to post it" - just
two days later Business Insider noticed that "clearly, some people don't
realize they're sharing personal stuff." To be clear, your AI chats are not
public by default - you have to choose to share them individually by tapping
a share button. Even so, I get the sense that some people don't really
understand what they're sharing, or what's going on. Like the woman with the
sick pet turtle. Or another person who was asking for advice about what legal
measures he could take against his former employer after getting laid off. Or
a woman asking about the effects of folic acid for a woman in her 60s who has
already gone through menopause. Or someone asking for help with their Blue
Cross health insurance bill... Perhaps these people knew they were sharing on
a public feed and wanted to do so. Perhaps not. This leaves us with an
obvious question: What's the point of this, anyway? Even if you put aside the
potential accidental oversharing, what's the point of seeing a feed of
people's AI prompts at all? Now Mozilla has issued their own warning. "Meta
is quietly turning private AI chats into public content," warns a new post
this week from the Mozilla Foundation, "and too many people don't realize
it's happening." That's why the Mozilla community is demanding that Meta: -
Shut down the Discover feed until real privacy protections are in place. -
Make all AI interactions private by default with no public sharing option
unless explicitly enabled through informed consent. - Provide full
transparency about how many users have unknowingly shared private
information. - Create a universal, easy-to-use opt-out system for all Meta
platforms that prevents user data from being used for AI training. - Notify
all users whose conversations may have been made public, and allow them to
delete their content permanently. Meta is blurring the line between private
and public - and it's happening at the cost of our privacy. People have the
right to know when they're speaking in public, especially when they believe
they're speaking in private. If you agree, add your name to demand Meta shut
down its invasive AI feed - and guarantee that no private conversations are
made public without clear, explicit, and informed opt-in consent.

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