No, Meta is not reading your DMs from December 16
Viral posts claiming Meta will read all private messages, every chat, photo and voice note, for AI training starting December 16 are false, along with their convoluted 'opt-out' instructions.
The grain of truth: from December 16, Meta will use people's conversations with Meta AI to personalize ads and content across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. There is no opt-out from personalization for those who choose to chat with Meta AI, but end-to-end encrypted messages in Messenger and WhatsApp are not included.
Separately, press reports say the company's chief AI scientist plans to leave and launch a startup focused on so-called world models, a research direction that trains systems on video and spatial data rather than text alone.
The same week, a news-agency investigation based on internal documents claimed the company's own projections put as much as a tenth of its revenue at risk from fraudulent and scam advertising, a figure the company disputes.
