After Killing Encrypted DMs, Mark Zuckerberg Wants You to Trust His New Encrypted AI Chat [View all]

Source: Gizmodo

Just days after Meta pulled support for encrypted direct messages on Instagram, the tech giant is now rolling out a new private AI chat feature.

Meta announced on Wednesday that its new Incognito Chat feature will let users interact with its AI chatbot on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app in what the company describes as a secure environment. The social media giant is pitching the feature as a way for users to feel free to discuss sensitive topics like health, finance, or career advice with Meta AI without worrying that their conversations could be viewed by anyone else.

“Other apps have introduced incognito-style modes, but they can still see the questions coming in and the answers going out. Incognito Chat with Meta AI is truly private, meaning no one — not even Meta — can read your conversations,” the company said in a blog post.

-snip-

In the case of Incognito Chat, users can start a private, temporary conversation with Meta AI that encrypts their messages and then processes them in a secure environment that Meta claims it can’t access. The company adds that those conversations are not saved by default and that the messages disappear on their own.

-snip-

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/after-killing-encrypted-dms-mark-zuckerberg-wants-you-to-trust-his-new-encrypted-ai-chat-2000758266

---

No one should trust Zuckerberg not to use all the information gathered with AI.

But this claim Meta won't be able to access these conversations will likely be Meta's defense if their chatbot pushes users to harm themselves and others.

It's bad enough just to encourage users to turn to AI for health, finance and career advice. Worse to make the chatbot appear to be the one confidante users can supposedly trust to never tell others what they said.

And even worse when there's no way Meta can guarantee a hallucinating chatbot won't give harmful advice, but the corporation will still supposedly not review what its bot tells users and will supposedly not save records of the chats.