Meta revises AI prompts after invasive-question backlash

Meta says it is changing the suggested prompts generated by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed the AI asking an invasive question about a woman's young children in a cross-posted video. A Meta spokesperson said the feature "missed the mark" and should never have surfaced that kind of question.

Why it matters: It's a concrete example of an automated prompt-suggestion feature surfacing privacy-invasive questions about children with no apparent guardrail, a failure mode that becomes more likely as AI assistants get embedded directly into social feeds. It adds to a pattern of reactive fixes at Meta rather than upfront safety review before these AI features ship.