Your Meta AI Chats Will Soon Influence the Ads You See

[MacRumors]

If you've been using Meta AI in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger, you might want to stop. Starting later this year, Meta plans to use your generative AI conversations to personalize content and tailor ad recommendations.

Text exchanges and voice conversations with Meta AI will be used to personalize posts, reels, ads, and more. Meta says that incorporating AI conversations will help the company improve its recommendations so that people are "more likely to see content they're actually interested in."

Meta likens using AI conversations to tailoring recommendations based on the content that people interact with on Facebook and Instagram. If you converse with AI about hiking, for example, Meta will show ads for hiking boots, as it would if you liked a hiking-related page.

There is no way to opt out of Meta's AI-based ad targeting, but Meta claims that users can adjust the content and ads they're seeing with Ad Preferences and feed controls. With Ad Preferences, you can limit ads from specific topics or block advertisers one by one, but you can't choose not to let Meta access your AI conversations. Interactions with Meta AI are used across Meta products that have been added to the same Accounts Center.

With no opt-out feature, the only way to prevent Meta from using your AI conversations for content and ad targeting purposes is not to use the AI in the first place.

Meta says that sensitive topics like sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership are not used for ad targeting purposes. Conversations that take place before December 16 won't be used.

Meta plans to start using AI for personalization on December 16, 2025, and customers will receive in-product notifications and emails before it happens. Data will be used for personalization in most countries around the world, though not in the EU, UK, and South Korea for the time being.

Article Link: Your Meta AI Chats Will Soon Influence the Ads You See

 

[F23]

Lizard man strikes again. Get Zucked.

 

[jz0309]

Gee, really? Mets watching what you're doing?
I never thought that was the case, Zuck seems like such a nice guy ...
/s

 

[PixelPanics]

What's a Meta AI? Never heard of her.

 

[DJM1740]

Remind me again, in the Meta-advertisers-users triangle, who's the customer and who's the product?

 

[rizzo41999]

Makes sense. Inevitable that AI data will be used for enhanced and specialized demographics targeting. More will do it, too. No different than how it works with us browsing websites, today.

 

[Loismustdie1]

Bet. Deactivating my FB account now.

 

[nepalisherpa]

Color me surprised!

 

[coolfactor]

What's a Meta AI? Never heard of her.

Meta AI is the most trustworthy source of world information you can find online. It has answers for the Meaning of Life, the origins of the Universe, and the flatness of Earth.

 

[RoadWarrior56]

I am so sick of "AI" being rammed down my throat. I don't see it helping me at all as a consumer, but giving others more and better tools to take away even more of my privacy, or find new ways pile on new charges on me (see the information on Hertz using AI to scan rental car returns).

I will turn off any option I am provided to disable any AI capabilities. In any case, I will continue to make sure that I NEVER knowingly do business with any products or services that are presented to me based on these algorithms.

I think much of AI may end up being a bubble that bursts at some point. You can only push something onto consumers so much that most people don't want and that most people don't trust.

 

[DailySlow]

At the least log out after using it - not a mere swiping of it off the screen.

 

[TalkieToaster]

huggingface.co

 

[tkermit]

If you've been using Meta AI in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger, you might want to stop.

If you've been using Meta anything, you might want to stop.

Meta says that sensitive topics like sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership are not used for ad targeting purposes.

Well, that's a relief. 😏

 

[iZac]

Every now and then I ask Meta AI how to disable Meta AI on WhatsApp.

It's yet to give me an answer.

 

[dead.cell]

Meta has to be one of the most bewildering companies. They employ so many people, have a customer base of over a billion people, and SOMEHOW can't seem to come up with usable products. Facebook is heavily bot-loaded. Every celebrity has 16 different "official" pages. Ads galore. And they STILL need more of your data.

They are good at knowing which slot machine I used in Vegas this weekend though. Bravo you ad-fiending junkies.

 

[DavidLeblond]

Wait, it didn't already do this?

 

[Ursadorable]

I can proudly say I've never used, nor have any intention of using a Zuckerberg product in my lifetime.

I was going to buy Carmack's Occulus Rift, until he sold it to Facebook.

 

[crsh1976]

It's no surprise, their sole purpose is pushing you better (sic) ads for things you don't need, want or even care about.

 

[DavidLeblond]

Meta says that sensitive topics like sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership are not used for ad targeting purposes. Conversations that take place before December 16 won't be used.

I mean... I call BS on that. One would think those would be THE topics to use for ad targeting purposes... right?

 

[iHorseHead]

Don't they already? I was researching about anti baldness medicine and now get ads about those things everywhere.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

There's no way to opt out ? Is this legal in the EU?

 

[emlarsen]

META is an evil corporation and I wish them nothing but the worst.

 

[klasma]

Luckily I don’t see ads.

 

[LV426]

Phew! I've never used Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger, and have no intention of doing so.

Panic over

 

[OliOliOliOli]

One more shot to remove from my phone!
I checked today my last message on fb was in 2012…