Despite chatbots being viewed as 'artificial' conversationalists, people have put their trust in them and are already oversharing with the AI, as chats with them are often perceived as private. However, that is not precisely the case with Meta AI.

Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.

Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

Interacting with AI has felt like using a digital confession booth—private, intimate, and shielded from public view. … That’s about to change dramatically with Meta’s rollout of social features in its stand-alone AI app.

Meta’s investment is the latest attempt by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to give his $1.8 trillion social media company an edge in the race to develop more powerful AI models. Zuckerberg has been trying to poach top researchers and engineers from rival groups as he seeks to build out a new “superintelligence” team.

If you use the Meta AI app, be careful you're not accidentally sharing anything personal. Think that's something you'd never do? Tell that to the many, many people who are apparently exposing their private prompts on the app.