Meta’s new AI chatbot, launched in April 2025, has introduced a ‘Discover’ feed that makes user-submitted chats public, raising significant privacy concerns. This feature, intended to encourage community and creativity, allows users to share their conversations with others, but it has inadvertently exposed sensitive information such as legal dilemmas, medical conditions, and financial concerns.
Privacy experts have raised alarms about the potential breach of trust, noting that many users might not be aware of the implications of sharing such personal data. The ‘Discover’ tab can surface conversations containing deeply personal confessions, often linked to real accounts, with names and profile photos still visible. Meta’s interface sometimes fails to clearly distinguish between public and private content, leading to accidental exposure.
While the app is designed to be both a chatbot and a social platform, blending search, conversation, and status updates, it has opened the door to major privacy slip-ups. Users can chat casually or delve into personal topics, from relationship questions to financial concerns or health issues, but the feature’s design has created a risk of unintended public exposure.
Meta’s AI app, launched in April 2025, is designed to be both a chatbot and a social platform. Users can chat casually or deep dive into personal topics, from relationship questions to financial concerns or health issues.
What sets Meta AI apart from other chatbots is the ‘Discover’ tab, a public feed that displays shared conversations. It was meant to encourage community and creativity, letting users showcase interesting prompts and responses. Unfortunately, many didn’t realize their conversations could be made public with just one tap, and the interface often fails to make the public/private distinction clear.
The feature positions Meta AI as a kind of AI-powered social network, blending search, conversation, and status updates. But what sounds innovative on paper has opened the door to major privacy slip-ups.
Privacy experts are sounding the alarm over Meta’s Discover tab, calling it a serious breach of user trust. The feed surfaces chats containing legal dilemmas, therapy discussions, and deeply personal confessions, often linked to real accounts. In some cases, names and profile photos are visible. Although Meta says only shared chats appear, the interface makes it easy to hit