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3mo ago

Meta AI Reaches 1.5 Billion Users, Privacy and Addiction Risks Grow

Embedding AI assistants into social apps raises questions about data privacy and user well-being.

Difficile de penser qu’une génération biberonnée aux conversations intimes avec l’IA pourrait, à long terme, favoriser les «vraies» interactions sociales.
Aujourd’hui, les IA donnent des réponses, sur un ton docte et rassurant, même si les réponses ne sont pas toujours documentées, ni vraiment très justes.
Certains utilisateurs, souffrant de crises d’angoisse, font de l’IA une psy. D’autres, secoués par les tumultes de la vie amoureuse, la considèrent comme une confidente.

Overview

  • Meta AI now counts 1.5 billion monthly users across Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and its standalone app, marking a rapid surge in adoption.
  • Google reports its AI Overviews service has surpassed 1.5 billion users while its Gemini assistant reaches 400 million monthly users and OpenAI’s ChatGPT logs 400 million weekly users.
  • Meta has woven its AI assistant deep into core features, surfacing suggestions and conversational prompts in messaging, search and news feeds to boost engagement.
  • Increasingly, people confide personal thoughts and emotions to AI chatbots, treating them as companions or informal therapists rather than mere productivity tools.
  • Psychologists and ethicists warn that AI’s addictive design and extensive data harvesting could undermine privacy and erode human social and reflective capacities.