Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Friday, June 13th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Do people know when they're using the meta-AI app? It's public.

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AI chatbots are the new vector for getting at or exposing your data.

TechCrunch points out that the public feed of the meta-AI app is filled with private and sensitive information,

suggesting that a lot of users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly.

Quote, it sounds like the start of a 21st

century horror film. Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea.

That's basically what it feels like right now on the new standalone meta-AI app where swathes

of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot.

When you ask the AI a question,

you have the option of hitting a share button, which then directs you to a screen, showing a

preview of the post, which you can then publish. But some users appear blissfully unaware that

they are sharing these text conversations, audio clips, and images publicly with the world.

When I woke up this morning, I did not expect to hear an

audio recording of a man in a Southern accent asking, hey, meta, do some farts stink more than

other farts? Flatulence-related inquiries are the least of meta's problems. On the meta-AI app,

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