This one is still relevant after all these years, I guess.
I don’t use any chat AIs, let alone Meta AIs; so they can do whatever they want for all I care.
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.
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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
Don’t worry, they have bought your data anyway…And gotten cookies onto your computer.Phew! I've never used Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger, and have no intention of doing so.
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If advertisers could source your microphone, they would. They WANT to. Do some apps do it? Probably. Google and Apple listen for your voice to trigger assistants. So technically they are listening all the time!I've been suspicious that all our devices are listening and influencing our ad results for many years. The only "listening" device I have (that I'm aware of) is my iPhone. In the past I've had friends over and we've talked about random things that they're interested in (and I'm not, like say a pottery hobby) and then within a few days the ads I'm seeing on webpages suddenly start showing pottery items on Amazon. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's happened enough, and with things that I've never searched for in my browser history, that it's got me suspicious that something is listening. I do have an LG TV which could also be listening (but that's usually off, and I've disabled the voice command in the menu). That's why I'm suspicious it's my iPhone giving up the data.
Is this even a “feature” anybody would want to use? It seems like they are just using “AI” and “advertising” as an excuse to collect more personal data. It’s not even something someone would want to do on their own. It makes no sense except for Zuck’s greed.Remind me again, in the Meta-advertisers-users triangle, who's the customer and who's the product?
I could totally see that...except that the majority of them do not have my WiFi password to join. Since I live in a very urban area with good cell signal, I'm rarely if ever asked for my WiFi because everyone seems to have unlimited plans and don't even think to ask to join my WiFi network.The ads are shown to you because people with an interest of pottery and web/search/purchase history of that (with some tabs probably still open) were on your network.
If you've been using MetaAI in Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger,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."