The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
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 stand-alone Meta AI app, where swathes of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot. […]
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Meta AI is a disaster.
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My life has become a germophobe‘s worst nightmare. There is no way I could even begin to describe the scenes I woke up to without making you gag. The digestive tracts of cats are truly wonderful machines that produce a lot of … content.
The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-dis…
from my link log —
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: dissecting and dividing algebraic data structures.
https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/Dissect.pdf
saved 2025-04-14
"Trump announced he's winding down FEMA -- and will personally decide whether you get help in a crisis."
The White House plans to cut disaster aid to Americans
https://www.treason.io/p/the-white-house-plans-to-cut-disaster
OceanGate? More like Heaven's Gate
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/11/titan-sub-disaster-netflix-documentary
Putin and Trump discussed Middle East tensions, Ukraine war in phone call (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/russia-us-putin-trump-498642958089922ffc038330041e9987
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p81#a250614p81
I was curious to see what streaming news media would do today, after three straight weeks of nonstop, utterly pointless coverage of the Pope. Would they finally get back to talking about the ongoing destruction of the American democratic state and the urgent matters piling up?
Naaaaah. Every single network (including, sadly, BBC and Sky News) chose to air the thoroughly disgusting spectacle of TFG and MBS making deals in KSA.
And then: Show trials! Kardashian! Mendezez! Diddy!
Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op