Kalie Robins posted a video of herself singing in a car with her daughter. Beneath it, Meta AI automatically suggested a question about the child's identity. When Robins opened the suggestion, she says the system returned names, birth information, pictures and videos of her children assembled from older posts.
The response brought scattered personal details together in one place. Robins also reported connections between locations in older and newer posts, and a photo she said she had deleted years earlier. The origin of that photo has not been independently examined. Her account should not be treated as technical proof that Meta AI accessed a store of deleted private data.
Meta told Yahoo Tech that the feature was intended to provide information about posts and use only material already accessible to the person asking. It also acknowledged that Robins should not have received the suggested questions. The company said it fixed the issue, without publishing a detailed technical incident report.
Robins said she would remove recognizable images of her children and ask others to do the same. The documented concern is the unwanted aggregation of personal information within her interaction. Disclosure to unauthorized recipients or physical harm has not been established. The OECD monitor also listed the case, but its AI-generated summary is neither an independent technical investigation nor an official assessment by OECD member states.