Meta AI builds detailed profiles of children from years of family posts
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If you’re still OK with posting pictures of your kids on social media, take a minute to hear from mother of two Kalie Robins. At the start of September, she did something that hundreds of thousands of parents do every day. She posted a video of her young daughter on Facebook.
Under the video of Robins and her daughter singing in a car, Facebook’s Meta AI system displayed a suggested question: “Who is the child passenger?”
Robins was shocked that Facebook would ask this question about a minor, so curiosity prompted her to click it. That’s when a flood of automated stalker-type behavior began.
In Instagram post , an enraged Robins described what happened:
“It starts pulling completely separate information for each of my kids.”
That included names, birth dates, and videos of them.