At this point, we're probably all familiar with the trope of the dirty old uncle who confuses his Facebook feed for a porn site. Now, there's a new type of uncle surfing the net, and thanks to Meta, he's powered by AI.

But Meta's desire for Meta AI users to share their chats with others via a social feed isn't surprising. Social media is how Meta makes its money. All of its apps are social apps. Also, bringing a social element to an AI chatbot experience could always work in Meta's favor.

In Meta's AI app, users can publish their prompts if they wish. Some examples raise the question of whether this is always done deliberately.

Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to fuel a new superintelligence lab—gaining infrastructure and leadership, but raising doubts about Scale’s future.

Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.

Meta is making an investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting Chief Executive Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.

Scale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will lead Meta’s new superintelligence unit.

Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

Facebook owner Meta's $14.8 billion investment in Scale AI and hiring of the data-labeling startup's CEO will test how the Trump administration views so-called acquihire deals, which some have criticized as an attempt to evade regulatory scrutiny.

Grok cheered. Claude refused. The results say something about who controls the AI, and what it’s allowed to say.

Asking Meta AI a prompt doesn't make it public. But there are two problems specific to the Meta AI app that make this an issue. One is that when you create your Meta AI account, it defaults to your Instagram name, so many people have their actual names and pictures on their profiles.