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It does a terrible job of explaining (in fact it doesn’t even attempt to!), but I think it’s related to Meta’s new “AI social media app”:

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/introducing-meta-ai-app-ne...

I heard that some people are using the AI in it without realising that they are sharing their prompts publicly.

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But Mozilla isn't showing the supposedly problematic flow. Where, exactly, are things going wrong? Show an example?

>And as always, you’re in control: nothing is shared to your feed unless you choose to post it.

You have to explicitly hit a share and post button in order to post to your feed.

It's still a problem they should fix (clearly they're not making it obvious enough that you're making your chat public), but that hardly fits Mozilla's accusation of "quietly turning private AI chats into public content." Disclaimer that I have not seen the UI, maybe it's much more misleading than it sounds.

To be fair, Meta has a history of pushing people towards sharing when they wouldn’t otherwise do so. Doesn’t explain the petition’s wording, which suggests interactions are public by default.

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