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Oct 8, 2026

How a Meta AI prompt changed one mom’s approach to online privacy

Kalie Robins posted a video singing with her daughter. Then, a Meta AI prompt surfaced her location. The experience led her to rethink what and how she posts online.

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How a Meta AI prompt changed one mom’s approach to online privacy
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It started when Kalie Robins posted an Instagram video with her kid. Meta's built in AI chatbot, Muse, started prompting her to ask questions about her daughters and personal life, which sent her down a social-media-privacy rabbit hole.

Robins took to her feed — at the time, with only a few hundred followers — to share her experience. “It starts pulling completely separate information for each of my kids: their names, birth information, pictures and videos of them. And then it says, ‘pinpointing Kalie Robbins' location,’” she said in her now viral video.

Meta responded to the incident saying it “missed the mark” and has fixed the issue that prompted those questions.

But Robins says she's now been catapulted into the AI privacy discourse. And it's pretty uncomfortable.

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Mother Horrified When Meta’s AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters — from Futurism

Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You — from Time

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How a Meta AI prompt changed one mom’s approach to online privacy