{"slug": "meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child", "title": "Meta changes AI prompts after chatbot asked mother to identify her child", "summary": "Meta changed the prompts generated by its AI tools after an Instagram video from user Kalie Robins showed Meta AI suggesting the question \"Who is the child passenger?\" about her daughter and surfacing names, ages, family details, and location-related information about her children, including a photo she believed had been deleted. Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby told The Verge the prompt should never have been generated and \"missed the mark,\" and the company confirmed it fixed the issue that caused the AI to suggest personal questions about people appearing in videos. Meta has not publicly detailed what changes were made to the prompt system or how frequently similar suggestions were generated before the fix.", "body_md": "Meta has changed the prompts generated by its AI tools after a viral video showed the chatbot asking a mother to identify her daughter and surfacing deeply personal family information.\n\nInstagram user Kalie Robins shared a video of herself and her daughter, after which Meta AI suggested the question, “Who is the child passenger?”\n\nRobins then interacted with the chatbot and said it produced names, ages, family details, and location-related information about her children. She also claimed Meta AI surfaced a photo she believed had been deleted.\n\nRobins documented the experience in an Instagram post, where she questioned why the chatbot was prompting her to identify a child who appeared in her own video.\n\n## Meta admits the prompt “missed the mark”\n\nThe incident quickly spread online, prompting concerns about how Meta AI scans public posts and connects information across accounts belonging to relatives.\n\nMeta told [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/tech/993974/meta-ai-prompt-invasive-suggestions?utm_source=chatgpt.com) that the prompt should never have been generated and acknowledged that it “missed the mark.”\n\n“While the content was available to this user, these prompts should never have been generated,” Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby said, according to The Verge.\n\nMeta also said the chatbot was only surfacing content the user was already allowed to access. However, the company confirmed it had fixed the issue that caused the AI to suggest personal questions about people appearing in videos.\n\nThe company’s explanation has not eased concerns from parents who worry that Meta’s AI tools can compile information about children from old posts, family accounts, and content users believed they had removed.\n\nThe episode also highlights the difference between deleting an individual post and removing every copy or reference to the information that may exist elsewhere across social media. Robins said the AI appeared to connect details from multiple family members’ posts to build a profile of her children.\n\nMeta has not publicly detailed exactly what changes were made to the prompt system or how frequently similar suggestions were generated before the fix.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child", "canonical_source": "https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child-3408508/", "published_at": "2026-09-12 15:09:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 15:15:06.587459+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Meta", "Meta AI", "Kalie Robins", "Instagram", "Dina El-Kassaby", "The Verge"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child.jsonld"}}