AI Chats Fuel Meta Ad Targeting

Updated: 2025.12.03 2D ago 4 sources
Meta will start using the content of your AI chatbot conversations—and data from AI features in Ray‑Ban glasses, Vibes, and Imagine—to target ads on Facebook and Instagram. Users in the U.S. and most countries cannot opt out; only the EU, UK, and South Korea are excluded under stricter privacy laws. — This sets a precedent for monetizing conversational AI data, sharpening global privacy divides and forcing policymakers to confront how chat‑based intimacy is harvested for advertising.

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