Meta’s Chatbot Data Grab Sparks Privacy Alarm — Here’s What It Means for You

Privacy groups are urging regulators to halt Meta’s plan to use your AI conversations for advertising. The move highlights a broader trend: Big Tech is quietly turning your words into AI training data.

Under the proposal, starting Dec. 16, Meta would harvest interactions between users and its suite of AI chatbots across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. These exchanges — meant to mimic casual, friendly conversations — would become training data for Meta’s algorithms and a new source of behavio